Alain Lissoir wrote:
WMI can be used for the monitoring but the capabilities are quite limited
with the current WMI provider implementation.
Despite this, it could be useful is some very specific pin-point monitoring
cases.
However, in your case, you definitively need something else.
NETPRO solution seems to me the best match for what you need.
However, I suspect that NETPRO uses this API (Polling for Changes Using the
DirSync Control)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ad/ad/polli
ng_for_changes_using_the_dirsync_control.asp
Don't know ... Only them can confirm ... :-)
No.... unfortunately, the DirSync control [which I've investigated
thoroughly and have used before] is totally unsuitable for what I need to
do. It lacks the granularity in what it can report about changes that have
occurred. Both NetPro and Quest have auditing products that report
information that DirSync cannot possibly be providing. I've also received
some information that indicates that Quest is using some sort of intercept
method, most likely hooking of functions in one of the DLLs that makes up
the core of AD.
I don't need a full blown auditing package and I'm not needing to perform
auditing, per se. But, I do need to use the same sorts of methods that
allow such auditing to be performed. I'm working on a port of a product
that already runs in the Novell eDirectory environment and which makes use
of eDirectory Event Notification services. It appears that AD is totally
lacking in terms of providing a similar set of asynchronous event-based
notifications that provide detailed information regarding a selected set of
event types.
Anything which functions similar to DirSync and which requires a partial
replica of the AD contents to be kept outside of AD for purposes of
comparisons to determine what a particular result in the DirSynch result-set
means is totally unacceptable for my purposes.
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