hp OpenView
Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Active Directory

Release B.03.00/August 2004

This document provides an overview of the changes made to the Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Active Directory (AD-SPI) for the B.03 release. It contains important information not included in the Configuration Guide or in the online Help.

Chapter 1: In This Version
Chapter 2: Installation Notes
Chapter 3: Fixes
Chapter 4: Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds
Chapter 5: Online documentation and support
Chapter 5: Software support in native languages

Chapter 1: In This Version

Enhancements to the Active Directory SPI include the following:

  1. Additional services/components in display: Views of your Active Directory forests, preferred bridgehead servers, and SYSVOL status in the OV Operations service map.
  2. Live hyperlinks to Microsoft Knowledge Base articles within the policies’ Instruction Text (just click the Instruction Text tab to view).  The Instruction Text associated with this message (accessible by clicking the Instruction Text tab) would include possible causes of the problem, the potential impact of the problem, and suggested actions an administrator can take to resolve the issue. Toward the end of the Instruction Text, you will see the link(s) to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article(s).
  3. GPO and Sysvol Monitoring: 
    Policies to monitor file replication service (FRS) issues. 
    Policies to monitor GPO synchronization in Active Directory and Sysvol.
  4. Performance enhancements to the DNS monitoring policies.
  5. Trust monitoring that includes new policies, reports, and a tool. The tool is available for display of domain controller trust relationships..
    Policies to determine and store trust health: The user will be notified if there is a change in the trust relationship/status upon addition/deletion of a trust. These trust changes will be stored on the agent and the data will be used by the trust history report.

    NOTE: Trust monitoring policies work only on Windows 2003 domain controllers (through the new WMI provider), while the tools can work on both Windows 2000/2003 domain controllers.

    Domain and Forest Trust Changes Report:     The report shows data for Windows 2003 domain controllers only. Trust data will be collected from all the Windows 2003 domain controllers and displayed in a report grouped by System Name.
    The report shows the following information: 
    - Type of change - addition, deletion/modification of a trust 
    - Trusted Domain Name
    - Trusting Domain Name 
    - Trust Attributes 
    - Trust Direction - Inbound, Outbound or Bi-directional 
    - Trust Status - Status string 
    - Trust Type - Downlevel, Uplevel, Non-windows or DCE - 
    A tool can be used to display the trust relationships on a domain controller. This tool works for both Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 domain controllers, listing all trust relationships and the domain controller attributes.
  6. DCDemotion tool: This tool is used to remove objects placed into the directory for tracking replication latency.  It is used before a DC is demoted so the user will not receive replication latency times regarding machines that are no longer domain controllers.

Chapter 2: Installation Notes

Installation requirements, as well as instructions for installing the Active Directory SPI, are documented in the HP OpenView Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Active Directory Configuration Guide provided in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. The document file is included on the product's CD media in the \Documentation\SPI Guides\ directory\ActiveDirectory_Config.pdf.

Upgrade note: No special actions are required. During the installation, using the Smart Plug-ins, New and Upgraded CD, Volume 1, the previous SPI version is detected and the installation proceeds as expected. If however, you want to preserve any policy customizations made in the previous version, a procedure in Chaper 2 of the Smart Plug-in for Active Directory Configuration Guideshows you how to do that.

Post-uninstall note: After you uninstall Active Directory programs, policies, and tools, you will need to manually delete the SPI for Active Directory subfolder under the console's "Tools" folder (see the Smart Plug-in for Active Directory Configuration Guide for details).  

Chapter 3: Fixes

  1. JAGaf13705
    Problem: The following reports were empty:
    AD Log Files Disk Size Summary Report -weekly & monthly
    AD DIT Disk Size Summary -weekly & monthly
    AD GC Rep Delay Times By GC/DC Report - weekly & monthly
    AD GC Rep Delay Times By DC/GC Report - weekly & monthly
    Fix: The problem has been resolved.
  2. JAGaf20052
    Problem: WINOSSPI-ADS_SecErrorsLogon Policy generated false alarms. 
    Fix: Resolution occurred in Windows OS Smart Plug-in.
  3. JAGaf05274 
    Problem:    OVOW 7.x, ADSPI, winmgmt.exe consumes much CPU when querying WMI. 
    Fix: Resolution occurred in Windows OS Smart Plug-in.
  4. ROSmm36081
    Problem: Replication Monitoring alerts were occurring for system(s) that had been properly removed.
    Fix: Tool added to the Active Directory Smart Plug-in that, when run, prepares Active Directory for the DC removal so that monitoring ceases and, as a result, no messages are generated.
  5. JAGaf06703
    Problem:     WINOSSPI-ADS_GlobalCatalogWrites/Reads/Searches misleading. 
    Fix: Resolution occurred in the Windows OS Smart Plug-in.
  6. IMBus04444
    Problem:     Product "unknown" with expired license listed after ADSPI installation. 
    Fix:     The problem has been has been resolved.
  7. ROSmm26372
    Problem:  An enhancement request for all Active Directory threshold events to contain units of measurement and instruction text.
    Fix: Units of measurement and instruction text were added to events generated from threshold vioations. 
  8. IMBus03562
    Problem: Units of measure were missing in report "AD Size of Sysvol Report."
    Fix: The report now contains the measurement units.
  9. NSMbb59252
    Problem: ADSPI/OVOW 7.20: Service Discovery was incomplete.
    Fix: Service Discovery is now complete.

Chapter 4: Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds

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Chapter 5: Online Documentation and Support

Go to the HP OpenView eCare web site to access interactive technical support tools. The same information and tools used by HP OpenView phone support experts are now available at: http://www.managementsoftware.hp.com/

This web site provides contact information and details about the products, services, and support that HP OpenView offers. You can go directly to the support web site at:
http://support.openview.hp.com/

To view the status of customer requests:

  1. Click support-->troubleshooting-->search technical knowledge base.
  2. You can search for documents, known problems, or patches in one of two ways:
    1. Search by keyword by filling in the pertinent information and clicking Search.

      OR

    2. Search by document ID number, by selecting the "document id lookup" tab, entering the document ID number and clicking View Document.

To view archived release notes and other documentation:

  1. Click using hp software-->product manuals.

    The product manuals search window opens. It is located at:

    http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/

  2. In the select product list, click [product name].
  3. In the select version list, click [version number].
  4. To start the search, click Search.

NOTE: To view files in PDF format (*.pdf), Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed on your system. To download Adobe Acrobat Reader, go to the following URL:http://www.adobe.com

Chapter 6: SOFTWARE AVAILABILITY IN NATIVE LANGUAGES

Only version B.02.00, is supported under Japanese environments.

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