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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 weekly on Mondays at 8:00 AM.

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 COE-Departmental OU Admins read permissions on COE GPOs.
  • Gives ECE OU Admins full permissions on ECE GPOs.
  • Gives CNR OU Admins full permissions on CNR GPOs.
  • Gives BME OU Admins full permissions on BME GPOs.
  • Gives NCSU-Software Packages full permissions on SW-NCSU* and FW-NCSU* GPOs.
  • Gives COE-Software Packages full permissions on SW-COE* GPOs.
  • Gives ECE-Software Packages full permissions on SW-ECE* GPOs.
  • 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.
  • 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 daily at 12:00 AM.
  • Only sends a report when groups are created or modified.
• 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.