Active Directory Health Test

Integrating Active Directory (AD) with Omnissa Horizon Cloud Pod and the Horizon Connection Servers play a crucial role in managing user authentication and delivering virtual desktop and application services. When a user attempts to log in to Horizon Cloud, the Horizon Connection Server authenticates the user against AD. Once authenticated, the Connection Server directs the user to their assigned virtual desktop or application. If the connection between the Horizon Connection Server and the AD is error prone or faulty or if the AD is not contactable, then, users could not be authenticated and hence, they will be unable to access their assigned virtual desktops or applications. Therefore it is essential to monitor the connection between the Active Directory and the Horizon Connection Servers in the Omnissa Horizon Cloud Pod. The Active Directory Health test helps administrators in this regard.

This test auto-discovers the Horizon Connection Servers configured on the target Omnissa Horizon Cluster/Pod and for each Horizon Connection Server, reports the connection status to the Active Directory. This test also throws light on the Horizon Connection Servers that are unable to contact the Active Directory.

Target of the test : An Omnissa Horizon Cluster/Pod

Agent deploying the test : A remote agent

Outputs of the test : One set of results for each Active Directory:Omnissa Horizon Connection Server configured on the Omnissa Horizon Cluster/Pod being monitored

Configurable parameters for the test

Parameter	Description
Test Period	How often should the test be executed.
Host	The host for which the test is to be configured.
Port	Refers to the port used by the target Omnissa Horizon Cluster/Pod. By default, this is set to NULL.
Connection Server Name	By default, this test connects to every Horizon Connection Server configured in the Omnissa Horizon Cluster/Pod remotely and collects the required metrics. For this, it is necessary to specify valid credentials of the Horizon Connection Servers. To help administrators provide these credentials quickly and easily, the eG administrative interface embeds a special configuration page. To access this page, simply click on the encircled '+' icon that appears alongside this parameter in the test configuration page. To know how to use this special page, refer to Configuring the Omnissa Horizon Connection Servers for Monitoring.
User Name, Password and Confirm Password	By default, this test uses Omnissa Restful APIs to collect the required metrics from the target Omnissa Horizon Cluster/Pod. For this, the eG agent should be configured with read-only user privileges that will allow the agent to communicate with the Horizon Connection Server in a particular domain and extract statistics. Therefore, specify the credentials of the user who is authorized to access the Horizon Connection Server against the User Name, Password and Confirm Password text boxes.
Domain Name	Specify the name of the domain to which the Horizon Connection Server belongs to.

Measurements made by the test

Measurement	Description	Measurement Unit	Interpretation
Connection status to the domain	Indicates the current connection status of this Horizon Connection Server to the Active Directory domain.		The values that this measure can take and its corresponding numeric values are discussed in the table below: Measure Value Numeric Value OK 1 Warning 2 Error 3 Unknown 4 Note: By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values to indicate the current connection status of this Horizon Connection Server to the Active Directory domain. However, the graph of this measure will represent the same using the numeric equivalents only i.e., 0 or 1.
Is domain contacted?	Indicates the current contact status between this Horizon Connection Server to the Active Directory domain.		The values that this measure can take and its corresponding numeric values are discussed in the table below: Measure Value Numeric Value Fully accessible 1 Uncontactable 2 Cannot bind 3 Unknown 4 Note: By default, this measure reports the above-mentioned Measure Values to indicate the current contact status between this Horizon Connection Server to the Active Directory domain. However, the graph of this measure will represent the same using the numeric equivalents only i.e., 1 to 4.