Yeah, thanks Darren,  I was starting to think I was going to have to do something with the Event Tracing capability which is what SPA uses. I was hoping to be able to find something already created, don't want to invent the solution. Prefer a tool that does it already, barring that something that could be slapped together with perl scripts.
 
I agree that AD Insight doesn't have replay capability. It also doesn't fit this very well for a couple of reasons (this is for the benefit of the crowd).
 
1. Only runs from the client side, can't hook at the DC.
2. It isn't very stable on Exchange. I think Exchange is a bit much for it.
3. When Exchange uses Ranged Retrieval Insight doesn't see the traffic which seems to mean that Exchange doesn't use the standard LDAP library when doing the ranged queries because insight hooks WLDAP32.
 
As for the others
 
Ethereal doesn't replay to my knowledge and it has trouble decoding larger LDAP queries anyway.
 
I think tcpreplay will be at too low a level.
 
Never heard of Wildpackets, I will check it out.
 
 
thanks everyone.
 
   joe
 
 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 1:17 PM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Traffic Replay

Insight for AD doesn't replay traffic but it will capture LDAP client activity on a per process level. Joe, have you looked at Server Performance Advisor 2.0 to get some of these metrics? It doesn't help with the replayability but it does help characterize load based on AD-specific events.
 
 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:04 AM
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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] LDAP Traffic Replay

The Winternals AD Insight thing may do this…

 

Thanks,
Brian Desmond

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 12:32 PM
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Subject: [ActiveDir] LDAP Traffic Replay

 

Is anyone aware of a tool that will sit and watch LDAP traffic and track the threads/clients/etc and then be able to replay that traffic?

 

Basically I am looking for a way to better judge DC perf in relation to Exchange LDAP queries. Setting up a whole Exchange environment to test the DCs is testing both Exchange and the DC and I am looking to try and narrow that to just AD so I can answer some of the questions of GC/DC capacity better than the 4:1 ratio business which everyone says isn't that great but doesn't seem to have anything easy to do that is better. I would like to track traffic to production GC/DCs and then be able to replay that LDAP load as desired over and over again against various pieces of hardware with different configs.

 

   joe

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