Active Directory Replication

Mischke · Joined: 09 Aug 2004 Posts: 6

I would like to be warned, if the Active Directory replication has one or more errors.
Anyone tried this before or has an idea? I tried dcdiag an replmon, but the errorlevel did not work.

boxy_25 · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 26 Location: France

Hi,

maybe you can try event log test to find some error ID that are know to active directory replication problems.

Cédric.

rdenig · Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 5

Hi,

visit Robbie Allans webpage: http://www.rallenhome.com/
There You can find a lot of vb-scripts, perl-scripts for monitoring AD.
If You need more details about monitoring AD with scripts, buy "managing enterprise active directory services" - the best book about AD-Monitoring.
These scripts works perfectly together with hostmon.

regards
Reiner

Mogge · Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 83 Location: Denmark

If you want to check if the policies have been replicated succesfull around your domain controllers you can use GPOTool.Exe - it checks Policy replication and returns the number of errors in the Errorlevel on exit. I haven't used it yet, but I'm planning to.

It should be easy to make a script running the tool and then check the errorlevel.

Just be carefull! If you check during the time the domain takes to replicate the GPO's normaly it will return some errors. I plan to schedule the test to nighttime to be sure I'm not the reason for some error

Let me hear how you proceed - I'm kind of intrested in this.

Kind regards
Mogge