Struggling to setup monitoring of our Active Directory?

[MTWiley]

I'm trying to find a way to monitor Active Directory on our DC(Windows Server 2003 SP2).

I've tried the template(s) that I found at http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthre...tive+Directory but get errors that the service isn't installed and it looks like the NTDS service that's referenced in those templates are referring to the older pre Server 2003 NT Directory service.

I've tried using service_state[] and changing the service name to

Active Directory
ActiveDirectory
AD

Active Directory Certificate Services
ActiveDirectoryCertificateServices
AD CS
ADCS

Active Directory Domain Services
ActiveDirectoryDomainServices
AD DS
ADDS

Active Directory Federation Services
ActiveDirectoryFederationServices
AD FS
ADFS

Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
ActiveDirectoryLightweightDirectoryServices
AD LDS
ADLDS

Active Directory Rights Management Services
ActiveDirectoryRightsManagementServices
AD RMS
ADRMS

I've spent the last few hours searching for what else it might be called or other templates/solutions. I've asked friends/professors/etc and still can't figure it out. I've even contacted Microsoft's Online Search Concierge to have them find it and had no luck, and even placed a call to Microsoft Tech Support and should be expecting a call back at some point in time.

If anyone has some tips/hints/anything to help me out I'd greatly appreciate it.

[kofeyh]

There's an AD template in the wiki, iirc -
http://www.zabbix.com/wiki/templates...ating_systems1

I usually have something like this as a trigger:

{Template_Windows Domain Controller:service_state["NtFrs"].last(0)}#0

The important thing is to use "" around the service name, and to get the case senstivity right. It should be the "Service Name" listed against the service (not the registry key name, or the display name).

To make it easier to understand, having a 'value mapping' setup for the service states is useful, it makes it a bit more human friendly.

[MTWiley]

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Thanks for the information, actually the templates in the Wiki were adequate to monitor our AD we were mostly just looking to make sure that our DCs would be available to answer any logon requests. I'd downloaded old templates I guess prior and that's what caused the confusion.

[rdwivedi]

I am also trying to configure my Active Directory to Zabbix for monitoring and logging purposes but have no idea how to start. Please help.