AD Replication Site Links

Report.AD.ADReplicationSiteLinks (LinkedReport)

AD Replication Site Links For Custom Configuration

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

How does this report work?

The AD Replication Site Links report displays these discovered properties:

Active Directory Site - from objects of type Active Directory Site
Link Name
Transport
Cost
Replication Interval

The report finds data if the objects supplied are of type

Active Directory Site Link

The report displays a matrix detailing all the found properties.

How to use this report?

When run from the Reporting space:

The second column in the search results shows of which type the displayed objects are. You could select from the "Add Group Button" an "Active Directory Forest" or from the "Add Object Button" these two object types "Active Directory Site" and "Active Directory Site Link".

When run from the Monitoring space:

Create a state view or performance view by choosing the “Active Directory Site Link” type.

Make sure to add objects of both types (Active Directory Site and Active Directory Site Link) to the report to see all configuration settings.

What Parameters are offered?

Date/Time selection: Allows selecting a relative or fixed date and time range and time zone.

Object: Allows adding objects to run this report for

Element properties:

Base	Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.CustomConfiguration
Target	Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.DomainControllerRole
Accessibility	Public
Visible	True

Source Code:

<LinkedReport ID="Report.AD.ADReplicationSiteLinks" Accessibility="Public" Base="ReportLibrary!Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.CustomConfiguration" Visible="true" Target="Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.DomainControllerRole">

  <ParameterBlock xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/mom/reporting/2007/ReportParameterSettings" columns="4">

    <Controls>

      <Control columnSpan="1" rowSpan="2" type="Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.ParameterControl.RelativeDateTimePicker">

        <ReportParameters>

          <ReportParameter name="TimeZone" binding="TimeZone">

            <Prompt>Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.Library!Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.ParameterPrompt.TimeZone</Prompt>

          </ReportParameter>

          <ReportParameter name="TimeZoneName" binding="TimeZoneName"/>

          <ReportParameter name="StartDate_BaseType" binding="StartDate_BaseType"/>

          <ReportParameter name="StartDate_BaseValue" binding="StartDate_BaseValue">

            <Prompt>Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.Library!Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.ParameterPrompt.StartDateTime</Prompt>

          </ReportParameter>

          <ReportParameter name="StartDate_OffsetType" binding="StartDate_OffsetType"/>

          <ReportParameter name="StartDate_OffsetValue" binding="StartDate_OffsetValue"/>

          <ReportParameter name="EndDate_BaseType" binding="EndDate_BaseType"/>

          <ReportParameter name="EndDate_BaseValue" binding="EndDate_BaseValue">

            <Prompt>Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.Library!Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.ParameterPrompt.EndDateTime</Prompt>

          </ReportParameter>

          <ReportParameter name="EndDate_OffsetType" binding="EndDate_OffsetType"/>

          <ReportParameter name="EndDate_OffsetValue" binding="EndDate_OffsetValue"/>

        </ReportParameters>

      </Control>

      <Control columnSpan="2" rowSpan="2" type="Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.ParameterControl.MonitoringObjectXmlPicker">

        <ReportParameters>

          <ReportParameter name="ObjectList">

            <Prompt>Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.Library!Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataWarehouse.Report.ParameterPrompt.ObjectList</Prompt>

          </ReportParameter>

          <ReportParameter name="ManagementGroupId" binding="GroupList"/>

        </ReportParameters>

        <Properties>

          <Property name="ContextObjectBinding">

            <Value>Containment</Value>

          </Property>

        </Properties>

      </Control>

    </Controls>

  </ParameterBlock>

  <Parameters>

    <Parameter Name="Properties">

      <Value>

        &lt;Data&gt;

        &lt;Columns&gt;

          &lt;Column Visible ="true"&gt;

	          &lt;ID&gt;$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.Site"]/Name$&lt;/ID&gt;

          &lt;/Column&gt;

          &lt;Column Visible ="true"&gt;

	          &lt;ID&gt;$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.SiteLink"]/Name$&lt;/ID&gt;

          &lt;/Column&gt;

	          &lt;Column Visible ="true"&gt;

	          &lt;ID&gt;$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.SiteLink"]/Transport$&lt;/ID&gt;

          &lt;/Column&gt;

          &lt;Column Visible ="true"&gt;

	          &lt;ID&gt;$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.SiteLink"]/Cost$&lt;/ID&gt;

          &lt;/Column&gt;

	          &lt;Column Visible ="true"&gt;

	          &lt;ID&gt;$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Windows.Server.AD.SiteLink"]/ReplicationInterval$&lt;/ID&gt;

          &lt;/Column&gt;

        &lt;/Columns&gt;

        &lt;/Data&gt;

                          </Value>

    </Parameter>

  </Parameters>

</LinkedReport>