Directory Services Attributes

Use the Directory Services attributes to create situations to monitor the Directory System Agent (DSA), the Active Directory process that runs on each domain controller and manages all the directory service functions.


DS Client Binds per second The number of ntdsapi(dot)dll binds per second services by this domain controller. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Client Name Translations per second The number of ntdsapi(dot)dll name translations per second serviced by this domain controller. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Directory Reads per second The number of directory reads per second. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Directory Searches per second The number of directory searches per second. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Directory Writes per second The number of directory writes per second. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Monitor List Size The number of requests to be notified when objects are updated that are currently registered with this DSA. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Name Cache Hit Rate The percentage of directory object name component lookups that are satisfied out of the DSA's name cache. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Notify Queue Size The number of pending update notifications that have been queued but not yet transmitted to clients. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Other Reads The percentage of directory reads that do not come from SAM, DRA, LDAP, LSA, XDS, KCC or NSPI. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Other Searches The percentage of directory searches that do not come from SAM, DRA, LDAP, LSA, XDS, KCC or NSPI. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Other Writes The percentage of directory writes that do not come from SAM, DRA, LDAP, LSA, XDS, KCC or NSPI. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Search Suboperations per second The number of search suboperations per second. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Security Descriptor Propagations per second The number of security descriptor propagations events that are queued, but not yet processed. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Security Descriptor Propagator Average Exclusion Time The average length of time that the security descriptor propagator spends waiting for exclusive access to database elements. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Security Descriptor Propagator Runtime Queue The number of objects that remain to be examined while the current direcotry service security descriptor propagator event is being processed. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Security Descriptor Suboperations per second The number of security descriptor propagation suboperations per second. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Server Binds per second The number of domain controller to domain controller binds per second that are serviced by this. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Server Name Translations per second The number of domain controller to domain controller name translations per second that are serviced by this domain controller. Valid entry is an integer.

DS Threads in Use The current number of threads in use by the directory service. Valid entry is an integer.

Server Name The name of a server. Valid format is a text string of up to 64 characters. For example, DEV1.

Timestamp The date and time the Tivoli Enterprise Management Server samples the data. Date and time of the sample. Standard 16-character date/time format (CYYMMDDHHMMSSmmm), where:

C

Century (0 for 20th, 1 for 21st)

YY

Year

MM

Month

DD

Day

HH

Hour

MM

Minute

SS

Second

mmm

Millisecond

Use simple text strings as described above. For example, enter 0971009130500000 to express October 9, 1997, 1:05:00 pm.