What KS's are avalable to monitor DNS (NETIQKB72907)

This article helps to describe what options are available to monitor DNS since there is a variety of modules that provide different forms of DNS Monitoring.

The following AppManager KS are avalable to monitor DNS.

NTEventLog
Use this to Monitor DNS log entries in the NT Event log.

NetServices_DNSHealthCheck
Monitors availability, CPU usage, memory usage, and name resolution of
the DNS service.

NetServices_DNSSync
Checks connectivity between two DNS servers.

NT_DNSConnectivity
checks connectivity between a managed computer
and its DNS server.

WIN2000_ADDNSRegistrationEventLog
Scans the Event Log for Active Directory-related Domain Name System (DNS) registration problems.

WIN2000_DNSAXFRStat
Monitors changes to AXFR statistics for a DNS since the last interval.

WIN2000_DNSDatabaseNodeMemory
Monitors the total memory used by a DNS service for database nodes.

WIN2000_DNSDynaUpdateError
Monitors the number of dynamic update errors (rejections or timeouts) during the monitoring interval.

WIN2000_DNSDynaUpdateStat
Monitors the total number of dynamic updates queued by the DNS server.

WIN2000_DNSEventLog
Scans the Windows event log for DNS entries matching your selection criteria.

WIN2000_DNSRecursiveQuery
Monitors recursive queries for the DNS server and checks the number of recursive query errors or timeouts per second.

WIN2000_DNSSecureUpdate
Monitors secure updates for the DNS server and checks the percentage of attempted updates that failed.

WIN2000_DNSTotalQuery
Monitors total query activity for a DNS server and checks the number of queries received per second and the number of responses sent per second.

WIN2000_DNSWINSStat
Monitors the WINS activity for a DNS server.

WIN2000_DNSZoneTransfer
Monitors DNS zone transfer activity and zone transfer failures.

UNIX

UNIX_DNSConnectivity
Checks a DNS client?s list of DNS servers to verify
each DNS server is reachable and responding to
client look-up requests.

UNIX_DNSHealth
Checks memory and CPU usage for the DNS
process and performs a basic nslookup test.

UNIX_DNSReplication
Monitors replication between two name servers in a
specified domain.

 

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Formerly known as NETIQKB72907

There are also some knowledge scripts's for response time monitoring of DNS in the AD-RT and Network-RT Modules.

Win2000 KS are suitable for use with Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers.