Devan, Yes, we do use much of the Branch Office tools, but somewhat modified to meet our particular and unique needs - not much different than the norm, I suspect.
I also currently do like you are thinking, time stamping the log files and maintaining an archive for a determined period. It has helped on many occasions for us to be able to t/shoot a problem and to be able to pull up a given log guided to a date by event logs. We deployed them to each of our DCs and to most of our member servers. We have the tasks running via the Task Scheduler (the AT command could be used, or a multitude of others, I suppose) and deployed them by hand to ensure that they were done and those that would be monitoring daily were aware of what they would be looking at and for (We have a number of remote sites with varying degrees of technical expertise). I suppose one could take the time to build a MSI for this, but I didn't have the time or the real need to do this. Hope this helps to confirm your direction. Rick Kingslan - Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000] Microsoft Certified Trainer MCSA, MCSE+I - Windows NT / 2000 "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --- Arthur C. Clarke > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Devan Pala > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 10:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ActiveDir] Diagnostic Tools > > > Hi, > > Has anyone had success with the 'Branch Office' QA scripts? > That is, the > batch files and visual basic scripts that check the servers > state etc. using > the common tools such as dcdiag, netdiag etc. > > Also, does anyone have any ideas on how to automate this > process on DC's in > a forest. I'm looking at creating batch files (on a floppy) > to be executed > during DC creation and scheduling tasks to run these batch > files which will > utilize the tools mentioned above. To make life easier I will also be > copying the tasks so they can be copied to every DC (yes, > there will be a > common monitoring file structure). I also ran into an example > batch file > that keeps the result text files for these tools for several > days with time > stamps. > > I'm just wondering if anyone has come across another easier > method to deploy > these tools. > > Rgds, > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm > List archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%> 40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
