Is there a way to use csvde to export just this information from AD? I've used this utility to export a lot of information is very handy when troubleshooting things like this. Otherwise I'll parse the output file I got from AdFind.
Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Fleischman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org>; <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:32 AM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Database size questions. No it would not, auth restoring just a bunch of regular 'ol objects would not cause lots of tombstones. You have some sort of object creation/deletion situation going on. Can we see the list of tombstones? I'm probably just interested in attributes dn and objectclass and when they were deleted. More interesting is are more being created. So if you run this same test in a few days, how many tombstones are there then? If you have not many more, you had some strange condition that passed, that should probably be understood, but at least you dont' have more growth. If there is a considerable increase in #, then whatever it is is still happening. ~Eric ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Steve Schofield Sent: Mon 3/21/2005 8:15 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD Database size questions. I ran the tool over the weekend and piped out to a file. Adfind reported there were 413091 objects returned. That seems high considering the number of objects in my AD database. We did perform a few tests where we deleted 10,000k or so objects at a time but enought to cause over 400k objects to be deleted. Would doing an authoritative database restore cause the number of deleted objects to go high? This was performed about 3 weeks ago. When reviewing the last 1000 lines of the results the data looked like I would have expected, just a few deletes here and there. Steve Schofield ----- Original Message ----- From: "joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Database size questions. > I would initially say take a peek at your deleted objects and see if you > have a ton of stuff in there. You can use ldp or adfind to do this. Adfind > is probably friendlier, you simply specify the -showdel option and look for > objects with isdeleted=TRUE or look in the deleted objects container. > > Note that by default, you need to have admin rights to see into the deleted > objects container in Active Directory. > > Something like > > Adfind -b "cn=deleted objects,dc=domain,dc=com" -showdel > > Will dump all objects (and their attributes) of all tombstoned objects in > the domain.com nc. > > joe > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Schofield > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:08 PM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] AD Database size questions. > > All the script does is either Adds users (a few at a time), updates one > attribute or deletes the user. As far as a lot of transaction are > concerned, the system was designed to hit a sql database first and determine > what changes need to happen then go to AD and update information. There > aren't a lot of transactions per say against AD. Thanks for the heads up. > > Steve > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bernard, Aric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 1:19 PM > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] AD Database size questions. > > > Not knowing what your script does for sure, keep in mind that as objects > are deleted they are first 'tombstoned' before being purged. Therefore > the space initially used by the object prior to being deleted is not > completely available for reuse a portion of it will continue to be > consumed by the tombstone object until the tombstone lifetime has > expired an the object has purged. > > I had a customer that was testing scripts against their production AD > and saw growth of the DIT to the tune of several GB over the course of a > week. Their script created 200,000 user/contact objects in an OU and > then processed them in several different ways. After the completion of > the script, the results would be analyzed and then the objects would be > deleted for another try... > > Regards, > > Aric > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Schofield > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 10:02 AM > To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org > Subject: [ActiveDir] AD Database size questions. > > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is a problem but something seems not exactly right > with > the size of my AD database. AD has about 10,000 user id's and a few > servers. The size of the AD database over the last few days has grown > from > 900 meg to 1.4 gig. We haven't added any a lot more objects to cause > this > type of growth. > > We do have a script that runs every 5 minutes that adds, updates, > removes > users that are used by a program that does LDAP look-ups. This is about > the > only thing because it runs so often I can contribute to it but not sure. > There are no errors in the event log but the growth of 500 meg in a few > days > concerns me. I looked around and didn't find much pertaining to this > subject. 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