© Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. MCSE: Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Planning, Implementation, and Maintenance Study Guide, Second Edition (70-294) Chapter 7: Active Directory Optimization and Reliability

Performance Monitoring Steps 2 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Establish a baseline of current performance Identify the bottleneck(s) Plan for and implement changes Measure the effects of the changes Repeat the process, based on business needs

Important Monitoring Guidelines 3 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Plan changes carefully Make only one change at a time Ensure consistency in measurements Utilize a test environment Maintain a performance history

Performance Categories to Monitor 4 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Performance objects Counters Instances

Three Possible Views 5 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Graph view - the default Histogram view Report view

System Monitor Properties 6 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. You can specify additional settings Accessed by clicking the Properties button in taskbar or right- clicking System Monitor and choosing Properties

Two Ways to View System Monitor Data 7 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. View current activity – what is happening in real-time View log file data – information that was previously saved to a log file

Performance Logs and Alerts 8 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Three types of items: –Counter logs –Trace logs –Alerts Two types of logging: –Circular –Linear

Major Areas to Monitor 9 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Processor (CPU) time Memory Disk I/O Disk space Network utilization

Useful Counters for Memory Monitoring 10 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Available MB Pages/Sec

Useful Counters for Network Interface Monitoring 11 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Bytes Total/Sec Packets Received Errors

Useful Counters for Physical Disk Monitoring 12 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Disk Reads/Sec Disk Writes/Sec Avg. Disk Queue Length

Useful Counters for Server Monitoring 13 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Bytes Total/Sec Server Sessions

Useful Counters for System Monitoring 14 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Processor Queue Length Processes

Other Performance Monitoring Tools 15 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Network Monitor Task Manager Event Viewer

Reasons to Back Up Data 16 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Protect against hardware failures Protect against accidental deletion or modification of data Keep historical information Protect against malicious deletion or modification of data

Backup Types 17 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Normal Copy Incremental Differential Daily

System State Data for Windows Server 2003 DC 18 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. The Active Directory Boot files COM+ class registration database Registry SYSVOL

Authoritative Restore 19 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. The process specifies a domain controller as having the authoritative (master) copy of the AD data store When other domain controllers write to the master DC, their information will be overwritten

Key Terms 20 © Wiley Inc All Rights Reserved. Alerts Authoritative restore Copy backups Counter log Daily backups Differential backups Directory Services Restore Mode Event Viewer Incremental backups Network Monitor Normal backups Performance Logs and Alerts System Monitor System State data Task Manager Trace logs