ADAM Database Test

This test reports critical statistics pertaining to the usage of the database caches, and the overall health of the AD database.

Target of the test : An Active Directory server

Agent deploying the test : An internal agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for every Active Directory server being monitored

Configurable parameters for the test

Parameters	Description
Test period	This indicates how often should the test be executed.
Host	The host for which this test is to be configured.
Port	Refers to the port used by the Windows server.

Measurements made by the test

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Database cache hits	Indicates the percentage of page requests of the database file that were occupied in a cache before responding to the request.	Percent	Ideally, the value of this measure should be moderate. A high value of this measure indicates the high utilization of physical memory. In such a case, you can add the required memory to the database.
Database table cache hits	Indicates the percentage of database tables that were opened using cached schema information.	Percent	Ideally, the value of this measure should be high.
Log records waiting	Indicates the rate of log record stalls, per second.	Records/Sec
Log threads waiting	Indicates the current number of threads waiting for data to be written to the log so that database updation will be executed.	Number