Quest Spotlight® on Active Directory® offers proactive performance monitoring and real-time diagnostics for detecting, troubleshooting and rapidly resolving replication, performance and availability problems in Active Directory environments.

With Spotlight on Active Directory, administrators can easily view and diagnose issues within an organization’s Active Directory. Pre-configured analysis tests, expert help and problem resolution enable administrators to detect, diagnose and resolve problems with Active Directory and DNS before they impact clients. Web-based reports trend analysis data over time, giving administrators the detailed knowledge to make critical Active Directory decisions. The feature-rich topology view interface joins the unified, graphical diagnostic console, allowing administrators to quickly identify the root-cause of problems in Active Directory and promptly resolve them.

Key Benefits

• Graphical, Actionable, Unified Diagnostic Console—Spotlight's Unified Diagnostic Console displays all Active Directory subsystems on a domain controller in one view, while visually representing the flow of data from the network through the various processes on the domain controller.
• Comprehensive Analysis Tests—Spotlight provides a pre-configured arsenal of analysis tests, so you don't have to determine on your own where to start your diagnosis. These tests allow you to analyze the core processes of Active Directory, enterprise-wide, to ensure that they are functioning properly. The tests automate what would be dozens of manual steps into a single intelligent analysis.
• Web-Based Trending Reports—Spotlight's Web-based reports trend analysis data over time, highlighting problem areas with key Active Directory processes, such as directory replication, DNS and domain controller performance. The reports enable you to identify trouble areas in your Active Directory and resolve them before they impact your organization.
• Integrated DNS Diagnostics—Spotlight's DNS Health analysis test checks all the necessary conditions to determine if DNS is healthy and responsive, and that domain controllers are properly configured to use DNS