The following Knowledge Script Groups (KSGs) are installed as part of the installation of AppManager for Active Directory. Like other Knowledge Scripts for monitoring Active Directory, they are located on the AD Knowledge Script tab. However, they are also accessible from the RECOMMENDED Knowledge Script tab.
The AD KSGs contain a recommended subset of Active Directory scripts that represent a “best practices” usage of AppManager for monitoring Active Directory in your organization. These KSGs can be used with AppManager monitoring policies. A monitoring policy, which you can use to efficiently and consistently monitor all of the resources in your environment, uses a set of pre-configured Knowledge Scripts to automatically monitor resources as they appear in the TreeView. For more information, see the topic titled “About policy-based monitoring” in the AppManager Help.
Generally, each of the KSGs is intended to be used only in the role that is specified as part of the description of the group, with the exception of the AD KSG. Unlike the others, the AD KSG leverages the Knowledge Script job delegation feature included with AppManager for Active Directory 6.2.
Whereas the recommended KSGs are designed to be deployed only on the Domain Controllers listed in the description of each group, the AD KSG executes only on role-holding Domain Controllers. The AD KSG should be used as an alternative to all the others; that is, you should either use the AD KSG or each of the separate KSGs as designated.
KSGs are composed of selected scripts from the regular Knowledge Script tabs. When you modify a script, keep in mind that the script that belongs to a KSG is a different copy of the actual script you access from the AD tab. The changes you make are not reflected in the script that is part of the KSG.
In some cases, default script parameter settings are different when the script is deployed as part of a KSG, as opposed to when it is deployed alone. The default settings of a script within a group depend on its monitoring purpose within the larger group, and on the intended monitoring scope of that group, such as a single domain or an entire forest.
If you modify or remove a script associated with one of these RECOMMENDED KSGs and want to restore it to its original form, you can either reinstall AppManager for Active Directory on the repository computer or check in the appropriate script from the qdb\kp\ad\<Knowledge Script Group name> directory.