IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Active Directory Agent offers a central point of management for your Microsoft Active Directory service. It provides a comprehensive means for gathering exactly the information you need to detect problems early and to prevent them. Information is standardized across the system. You can monitor a multitude of servers from a single workstation. IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Active Directory Agent lets you easily collect and analyze Active Directory-specific information, including:
address information from address book providers
physical storage details for Active Directory
Knowledge Consistency Checker details
Kerberos Key Distribution Center details
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol details
built-in logon authentication and user authorization information
communication data between the Active Directory and Exchange Directory Service (XDS)
user account information, including groups to which a user belongs
a view of all users and resources within the Microsoft Exchange Server environment
IBM Tivoli Monitoring products are intelligent, remote monitoring agents that reside on managed systems. They assist you in anticipating trouble and warn system administrators when critical events take place on their systems. With these products, system administrators can set threshold levels as desired and flags to alert them when the system reaches these thresholds. IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Active Directory Agent provides several benefits:
Simplifies application and system management by managing applications, platforms, and resources across your system.
Increases profits by providing you with realtime access to reliable, up-to-the-minute data that allows you to make faster, better informed operating decisions.
Scales and ports to new platforms.
Enhances system performance by letting you integrate, monitor, and manage your environment, networks, console, and mission-critical applications. IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Active Directory Agent alerts you when conditions in your environment meet threshold-based conditions. These alerts notify your system administrator to limit and control system traffic. You can view data gathered by IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Active Directory Agent in reports and charts, informing you of the status of your managed systems.
Helps you monitor and gather consistent, accurate, and timely information you need to effectively perform your job.