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Existing

Stuff You See

• DNS Suffix Report
  • Checks that computers are registered in QIP and that they are registered with the correct DNS suffix.
  • Only sends report if there are problems detected.
  • Runs Monday-Friday at 8:00 AM.
• WolfTech Managed Groups Manager

Stuff You Don't See

• LAPCrawler Report
  • Summarizes the results of the Local Administrator Password Change Crawler (LAPCrawl) for the past 24 hours.
  • LAPCrawl is currently only utilized for ECE OU computers.
  • Runs every day at 8:00 AM.
• AD Object Report
  • Summarizes all creations, deletions, and modifications of Active Directory objects in the last 24 hours.
  • Runs every day at 8:00 AM.
• Admin Usage Report
  • Summarizes all usages of administrative accounts (*.admin, *.ouadmin, and *.domadmin) in the last 24 hours.
  • Runs every day at 8:00 AM.
• Backup DC System State
  • Does a complete backup of each domain controller.
  • Full backups are done weekly every Saturday morning.
  • Incremental backups are done every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday morning.
• DC Health Report
  • Checks the status of the domain controllers using the dcdiag utility.
  • Runs every day at
• Cleanup DC Backups
  • Deletes old DC backups.
  • Deletes all incremental backups.
  • Deletes full backups older than 27 days.
  • Runs weekly on Saturdays at 12:00 AM.
• Duplicate Computer Accounts Report
  • Detects duplicate computer accounts that exist on both the ECEW2K and WOLFTECH domains.
  • Used only during the ECEW2K->WolfTech migration, though could be used to help with other migrations.
  • Runs every day at AM.
• EventLog Errors Report
  • Summarizes EventLog errors from domain and ECE departmental servers in the past 1 hour.
  • Runs every hour at 45 mins past the hour.
• GPO Delegation
  • Delegates permissions on group policy objects.
  • Gives NCSU-Departmental OU Admins read permissions on domain/NCSU GPOs.
  • Gives <OU>-OU Admins read permissions on <OU>- GPOs.
  • Gives <OU>-OU Admins read permissions on SW-<OU>- GPOs.
  • Gives <OU>-OU Admins read permissions on FW-<OU>- GPOs.
  • Gives <OU>-OU Admins read permissions on EX-<OU>- GPOs.
  • Gives NCSU-Software Packages full permissions on SW-NCSU* and FW-NCSU* GPOs. (not currently implimented)
  • Gives COE-Software Packages full permissions on SW-COE* GPOs. (not currently implimented)
  • Gives ECE-Software Packages full permissions on SW-ECE* GPOs. (not currently implimented)
  • Runs daily at 3:30 AM.
• Group Membership Modified Report
  • Detects changes to important security groups and reports to domain admins.
• GuardDog Groups Manager Report
  • Summarizes security group changes for GuardDog groups.
• Hack Attempts Report
  • Summarizes security audit failures on domain and ECE departmental servers.
• Invalid UserIDs Report
  • Checks domain user accounts against ldap.ncsu.edu to detect accounts that should be disabled, enabled, or deleted.
  • Runs daily at 3:00 AM.
• LDAP Account Manager Report
  • Creates user accounts by searching ldap.ncsu.edu for employees with supported OUCs and students with supported curriculum codes.
  • Runs daily at 8:00 AM.
• Log Monitor
  • Monitors the EventLogs on domain and ECE departmental servers using Microsoft Log Parser.
• SAM Notify Report
  • Sends password synchronization reminders to students enrolled in notified classes and completion reports to OU admins.
  • Notified classes are specified in the wolftech_myit.tlabs_crs_groups table.
  • Runs weekly on Mondays at 6:00 PM.
• Server Local Login Report
  • Summarizes logins to domain and ECE departmental servers over the past 24 hours.
  • Runs daily at 8:00 AM.
• Software Database Report
  • Checks the packaged software database against the software groups in Active Directory.
  • Runs weekly on Mondays at 8:00 AM.
• Software Replication Report
  • Replicates software groups from parent OUs to departmental OUs.
  • Runs every hour on the hour.
  • Only sends a report when groups are created or modified.
• Software Replication Verifier
  • Verifies that the destination groups for software replication exist.
  • Runs once daily at 7:50 AM
• Student Account Manager Report
  • Creates and maintains course groups for supported colleges from Sybase.
  • Runs daily at 9:00 AM
• Update Info from LDAP Report
  • Synchronizes directory data from LDAP to Active Directory for employees.
  • Runs daily at 8:30 AM.
• Desktop/Laptop Synchronizer
  • Compares "dot groups" (.Laptops/.Desktop) to OU Laptop and Desktop groups and adds any entries in the OU group that are not in the "dot group" to the "dot group" and removes any entries in the "dot group" that are not in the OU group.
• Unassigned Computers Report
  • E-mails computer owners to report computers in the NCSU/Unassigned OU.
  • Runs daily at 5:00 AM.

ECE only

• Check Local User Accounts
  • Checks for local accounts on computers.
  • Runs daily at 8:00 AM.