Environment
NetIQ AppManager 7.0.x
Situation
Resolution
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.
Cause
Additional Information
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.