AD Domain Member Monitoring Discovery

Microsoft.AD.DomainMemberPerspective.Discovery (Discovery)

Discovery rule to enable AD Domain Member Monitoring. Rule is disabled by default. Use Overrides to enable on desired AD Domain Member Monitoring systems

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

The AD Domain Member Perspective Discovery Rule. This rule the enables the AD Domain Member monitoring from a Windows Computer system (member server, or desktop client). Typically Windows server systems that have specific AD availability requirements are AD Domain Member Monitoring candidates, for Exchange server systems.

Configuration

This discovery rule is disabled by default, and has to be manually enabled on selected Windows system.

WARNING: Do not enable this rule globally on all Windows systems in your environment since this could impact the availability of your Domain Controllers. Only do selective enabling on individual nodes, or custom groups.

Element properties:

Target	Microsoft.Windows.Computer
Enabled	False
Frequency	14400
Remotable	False

Object Discovery Details:

Discovered Classes and their attribuets:
Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.DomainMemberPerspective

Member Modules:

ID	Module Type	TypeId	RunAs
DiscoveryDataSource	DataSource	System.CommandExecuterDiscoveryDataSource	Default

Source Code:

<Discovery ID="Microsoft.AD.DomainMemberPerspective.Discovery" Enabled="false" Remotable="false" Target="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer">

  <Category>Discovery</Category>

  <DiscoveryTypes>

    <DiscoveryClass TypeID="AD!Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.DomainMemberPerspective"/>

  </DiscoveryTypes>

  <DataSource ID="DiscoveryDataSource" TypeID="System!System.CommandExecuterDiscoveryDataSource">

    <IntervalSeconds>14400</IntervalSeconds>

    <ApplicationName>%windir%\System32\cscript.exe</ApplicationName>

    <WorkingDirectory/>

    <CommandLine>$file/ClientDiscovery.vbs$ 0 $MPElement$ $Target/Id$ $Target/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</CommandLine>

    <TimeoutSeconds>300</TimeoutSeconds>

    <RequireOutput>true</RequireOutput>

    <Files>

      <File>

        <Name>ClientDiscovery.vbs</Name>

        <Contents><Script>'*************************************************************************

' Script Name - ClientDiscovery

'

' Purpose     - Discovers a ClientPerspective

'

' (c) Copyright 2014, Microsoft Corporation, All Rights Reserved

' Proprietary and confidential to Microsoft Corporation              

'*************************************************************************



Option Explicit



SetLocale("en-us")



Sub Main()

    'Variables

    Dim oArgs,SourceType,SourceID,ManagedEntityId,TargetPricipalName

    Set oArgs = WScript.Arguments

    if oArgs.Count &lt; 4 Then

       Wscript.Quit -1

    End If



    SourceType = oArgs(0)

    SourceID = oArgs(1)

    ManagedEntityId = oArgs(2)    

    TargetPricipalName = oArgs(3)

                   

    Dim oAPI,oDiscData

    Set oAPI = CreateObject("Mom.ScriptAPI")    

    Set oDiscData = oAPI.CreateDiscoveryData (SourceType, SourceID, ManagedEntityId)

    

    ' Note: ClientPerspective was renamed to DomainMemberPerspective

    Dim oClientPerspectiveInstance      

    Set oClientPerspectiveInstance = oDiscData.CreateClassInstance("$MPElement[Name='AD!Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.DomainMemberPerspective']$")                                                                                          

    oClientPerspectiveInstance.AddProperty "$MPElement[Name='Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer']/PrincipalName$", TargetPricipalName

    oClientPerspectiveInstance.AddProperty "$MPElement[Name="System!System.Entity"]/DisplayName$", "AD Client Monitoring"

    

    oDiscData.AddInstance(oClientPerspectiveInstance)                                

    oAPI.Return oDiscData     

End Sub





Call Main()                                </Script></Contents>

      </File>

    </Files>

  </DataSource>

</Discovery>