Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Monitor NTDS Performance

Uses cooked performance counters to monitor NTDS performance on a domain controller.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
set objRefresher = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemRefresher")
Set colItems = objRefresher.AddEnum _
    (objWMIService, "Win32_PerfFormattedData_NTDS_NTDS").objectSet
objRefresher.Refresh
For i = 1 to 5
    For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo "Directory service threads in use: " & _
        objItem.DSThreadsInUse
    Wscript.Sleep 2000
    objRefresher.Refresh
    Next
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This is a VB Script, this can be used by saving the file in .vbs file