Microsoft: Active Directory Server PowerPack Release Notes version 100

Version 100 of the Microsoft: Active Directory Server PowerPack is an update from version 1.0. It includes updates to the "Microsoft: Active Directory DRA Performance" Dynamic Application.

  • Minimum Required SL1 Version: 8.7.0

Before You Install or Upgrade

Ensure that you are running version 8.7.0 or later of SL1 before installing "Microsoft: Active Directory Server" PowerPack version 100.

For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.

Installation and Upgrade Process

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack will overwrite all content in that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent local changes for some commonly customized fields from being overwritten.

If you are currently using the Dynamic Applications in the PowerPack to monitor devices, collection errors might occur for one or two polling cycles during the installation of a new version. To prevent collection errors during an upgrade, you can optionally disable collection for monitored devices before performing the following steps and re-enable collection after the upgrade.

To install this PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions menu and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack modal appears.
  4. Click Browse and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPack Manager page.

See the manual Monitoring Windows for more information about the PowerPack.

Features

This release includes the following features:

  • Dynamic Applications that collect Active Directory (AD) performance data
  • Event Policies that are triggered when AD LDAP performance metrics meet certain criteria

Enhancements and Issues Addressed

The following enhancements and addressed issues are included in version 100 of the "Microsoft: Active Directory Server" PowerPack:

  • The "Microsoft: Active Directory DRA Performance" Dynamic Application was updated with three new collection objects:
  • DRA Sync Requests Missing
  • DRA Sync Requests Successfully
  • DS Name Cache Hit Rate

Known Issues

This release has no known issues.