Using Novell Imonitor 2.1 - Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 - ADMINISTRATION Manual

Using Novell iMonitor 2.1

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Novell iMonitor provides cross-platform monitoring and diagnostic capability to all servers in
your eDirectory tree. This utility lets you monitor your servers from any location on your network
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where a Web browser is available.
iMonitor lets you look at the eDirectory environment in depth on a partition, replica, or server basis.
You can also examine what tasks are taking place, when they are happening, what their results are,
and how long they are taking.
iMonitor provides a Web-based alternative or replacement for many of the Novell traditional server-
based eDirectory tools such as DSBrowse, DSTrace, DSDiag, and the diagnostic features available
in DSRepair. Because of this, iMonitor's features are primarily server focused, meaning that they
focus on the health of individual eDirectory agents (running instances of the directory service) rather
than the entire eDirectory tree.
iMonitor 2.1 provides the following features:
• eDirectory health summary
• Synchronization information
• Known servers
• Agent configuration
• eDirectory health checks
• Hyperlinked DS Trace
• Agent configuration
• Agent activity and verb statistics
• Reports
• Agent information
• Error information
• Object/schema browser
• Novell Nsure Identity Manager monitor
• Search
• Partition list
• Agent process status
• Background process schedule
• DSRepair
• Connection monitor
The information you can view in iMonitor is based the following factors:
• The identity you have established
Your identity's eDirectory rights are applied to every request you make in iMonitor. For
example, you must log in as the Administrator of the server or a console operator on the server
where you are trying to access the DSRepair page.
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