We have some DCs in locations that probably no longer justify a local DC. I'm trying to do some quantitative analysis to see just how busy the DC is in those locations. I'd like to dcpromo some of them down if possible so the boxes can be used as member servers. The business want to install IIS on some of them for some training application, and I don't want IIS on my DCs.
I figured I'd track some perfmon stats over time on each DC. Problem is, I don't fully understand what I should be looking for. These sites should be all Win2K workstations, but there may still be some NT4 workstations. The DC is the only server in these sites. I thought I'd look at the following: DS Directory Reads/sec DS Directory Searches/sec DS Directory Writes/sec KDC AS Requests KDC TGS Requests NTLM Authentications I purposely left out the DSA counters regarding replication, etc., as my purpose is basically to find out how heavily the DC is being used in that site. Any others I should consider ? Any pointers to good resources on this topic ? Most of what I find just gives a one-line description of the counters, without telling me what to look for. Dave Fugleberg 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/
