Performance Report domain controllers

Question

Hi AD experts,
I'm lookink for a tool to generate performance report on some DC's.
a script to createt Data collector Set (on Perfmon) like http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ExPerfwiz
and the tool to parse the report like PAL : pal.codeplex.com
Is there any similar tool for DCs?
Thanks

Answer 1

I agree with Mr X, SCOM would be your best bet and the script he's provided is useful as well but I'd like to add the following.
If you don't have a budget to purchase an awesome tool like SCOM and you're looking to perfmon have a look at the links I'm providing below:
Performance Tuning Guidelines for previous versions of Windows Server
In there above link they have a few downloads for 2008, R2, and 2012.  In those Word documents you'll have some information on Active Directory.
Ruling Out Active Directory-Bound Problems
The above link may have some useful information to you as it relates to GCs
NTDS Object
The above link has a lot of information just about perfmon and NTDSAs with any monitoring software you're
really going to have to figure out what you want to monitor and what's important to you, you're also going to need to baseline what you have because there's no real standard on what's is too high and what is too low.  My environment may have 10 times
as many LDAP Client sessions as yours and vice versa.  PAL should be able to do what you need.  With the information above you should be able to find the counters you want to monitor.
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