The Directory Services Feature Set

Directory Services 1.2 is a feature set, licensed separately, that provides advanced functionality in the Discovery module.

Domain Policies

Domain policies can be can specified for multiple machines and users by:

  • OU/Container
  • Groups

Incremental Synchronization
Activation/Deactivation

Provides incremental discovery and synchronization of domain controller data. Without Directory Services 1.2 only full discovery and synchronization is supported. Activation and Deactivation buttons display on the Domain Watch > Probe Deployment page, enabling and disabling incremental discovery and synchronization.

Auto Portal Access

Auto creates portal access to a machine, based on the person last logged on to the machine.

Contacts

Discovers and synchronizes domain contacts and VSA staff records. A domain contact contains information similar to a domain user, but a contact has no domain logon privileges. Directory Services 1.2 enables you to set policies that create VSA staff member records for newly discovered contacts in a domain and to keep the two records synchronized with each other. Creating a staff record using a Directory Services policy also creates a hierarchy of departments that reflects the OU/container hierarchy in the domain.

Users

  • Enables and disables domain logons from the Directory Services module.
  • Resets the domain passwords.
  • Unlocks domain accounts.

Alerts

Provides alerts for new or changed computers, contacts, OU/containers, domains, groups, organizations, or users.