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Active Administrator for Active Directory Health

Use this Active Directory health check tool to ensure IT fitness. Diagnose Active Directory health and performance in real time. Active Administrator for Active Directory Health is a set of Active Directory monitoring tools that offers troubleshooting, diagnostics and monitoring of AD performance to maintain user productivity. This set of Active Directory monitoring tools delivers real-time diagnostic data from a centralized AD health dashboard, helping you pinpoint the root cause of AD problems before they impact users. Additionally, whatever AD changes you make as a result of the AD health check can be synced accurately and efficiently to Azure AD.
Overview of Active Administrator for Active Directory Health 08:34
Issues with Microsoft Active Directory can have wide-reaching effects, including system downtime, directory unavailability and end-user disruption. Yet because administrators have no easy way to run AD health checks or identify resource bottlenecks, they spend too much time troubleshooting and resolving problems in AD. But Active Administrator for Active Director Health simplifies the process significantly. Use this set of Active Directory monitoring tools today to improve the health and performance of AD.

Network Operations Center

Get a centralized location to monitor data points, active alerts and detailed information on each domain.

AD server performance reports

Proactively report on daily performance metrics with customizable intelligent analyses based on your environment.

Live AD topology view

View the entire AD site to see an entire forest at a glance, view issues on domain controllers and automate AD performance troubleshooting.

49%

Achieved ROI in 6 – 12 months

73%

Security & auditing #1 feature

5 Star

Rating for “Delegation” feature

Features

Centralized diagnostics console

Discover the flow of data from the network through a domain controller using visual flow charts, graphs and icons. This set of Active Directory monitoring tools offers a consolidated view of system status, with resource bottlenecks highlighted in yellow and red so you can drill down on alerts for further analysis.

Network Operations Center (NOC) view

Network Operations Center (NOC) view gives you a central location where you can monitor your forests, domains, sites and domain controllers. View a summary of data points, active alerts and detailed information on each domain. Set up unique profiles to view only the specific data you need. This set of Active Directory monitoring tools also enables you to create topology diagrams for a visual representation of your network.

Simplified AD health analysis

Proactively monitor and diagnose critical, directory-wide infrastructure issues from replication latency to Domain Name System (DNS) inconsistencies. When a problem occurs, this set of Active Directory monitoring tools sends an alert notifying you immediately of the exact nature and location of the problem, saving you analysis and troubleshooting time. Following critical alerts, built-in or custom remediation actions run automatically to fix the problem.

Streamlined enterprise-wide troubleshooting

Diagnose directory problems without server-by-server, test-by-test troubleshooting using a comprehensive set of troubleshooting tests and utilities. Proactively isolate and repair problems to ensure domain controller, DNS and replication health. You can also get detailed reports for current use and historical reference.

Automated AD health checks and repairs

Rid yourself of manual AD trouble-shooting with more than 100 customizable AD health check tests, including replication failure, queue length, DNS zone and SYSVOL consistency. This set of Active Directory monitoring tools allows you to run multiple tests against selected domain controllers, sites, domains or naming contexts.

Custom services and performance counters alerts

In addition to AD health check capabilities, Active Administrator for Active Directory Health allows you to self-select additional Windows services and performance counters that are required to be monitored, so you can identify the root cause of problems before they impact users.

Product Add-ons

Active Administrator

Go beyond AD health check capabilities by expanding with Active Administrator, which helps you address administration gaps left by native tools and quickly meet auditing requirements and security needs. With integrated AD administration and seamless permissions management, you can maintain business continuity, increase IT efficiency and minimize security risks – all from a single console.

Vernalis R&D Ltd

Active Administrator helps us spot all the quirky that can happen in Active Directory before they become critical failures … and helps us keep on top of our AD health.

Lawrence Micallef IT Manager, Vernalis R&D Ltd

Small Business Health Care Company

My staff relies on Active Administrator to monitor Active Directory. In most cases, the issues reported are routine, but the immediate reporting allows my team to quickly respond to issues.

Chieft Technology Officer Small Business Health Care Company

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AD health dashboard
AD health check
Server performance
AD health reports
NOC view summary
NOC view topology
NOC view Active Alerts
NOC view DCs
AD health dashboard in active directory monitoring tools

AD health dashboard

Quickly view AD health, identify bottlenecks and get details with this Active Directory health check tool.

Specifications

Processor

1 GHz or higher

Memory

1 GB minimum, 2 GB recommended

Hard disk space

100 MB

Operating system
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022
  • SQL Server 2014
  • SQL Server 2014 Express
  • SQL Server 2016
  • SQL Server 2017
  • SQL Server 2019
  • SQL Server 2022
Processor

1 GHz

Memory

256 MB

Hard disk space

100 MB

Operating system
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 11
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022

See the Release Notes for the full list of system requirements.

Resources

Datasheet

Active Administrator for Active Directory Health

Simplified Active Directory management from a single console
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Support and services

Product Support

Self-service tools will help you to install, configure and troubleshoot your product.

Support Offerings

Find the right level of support to accommodate the unique needs of your organization.

Education Services

Training courses delivered through online web-based, on-site or virtual instructor-led.