Default Parameters for O365UserActivTest

This test auto-discovers the services offered by your Office 365 subscription. For each service, the test then reports the number of unique operations performed on the service, and the number of unique users using the service. Using these metrics, administrators can gauge the overall workload of each service and accurately identify the popular/most used service. With the help of the detailed diagnostics of this test, you can also identify that operation which has imposed maximum load on the service. Detailed metrics also reveal the users who used the service.

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the O365UserActivTest test.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• For execution, this test requires the privileges of an O365 user who has been assigned the Global Reader role and is vested with the View-Only Audit Logs permission. Configure the credentials of such a user against O365 USER NAME and O365 PASSWORD text boxes. Confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

  While you can use the credentials of any existing O365 user with the aforesaid privileges, it is recommended that you create a special user for monitoring purposes using the Office 365 portal and use the credentials of that user here. To know how to create a new user using the Office 365 portal and assign the required privileges to that user, refer to Creating a New User in the Office 365 Portal available under Pre-requisites for Monitoring Microsoft Office 365 section of the Monitoring Microsoft Office 365 document..

• To have a personalized business email address, team site address, or even an account name, you set up a domain name with Office 365. A domain is a unique name that appears after the @ sign in email addresses, and after www. in web addresses. It typically takes the form of your organization's name and a standard Internet suffix, such as yourbusiness.com or stateuniversity.edu. Office 365 gives you an initial domain name to use. By default, this will be of the format: *.onmicrosoft.com - eg., abc.onmicrosoft.com. To enable this test to pull metrics, you need to configure the test with the name of this initial domain. Therefore, configure the O365 DOMAIN parameter with the name of the initial domain. To know what is your Office 365 initial domain name, do the following:

  1. Log on to the Microsoft Office 365 Online Portal using an administrative account.

  2. Under Management, click on Domains.

  3. The initial domain should be listed with a name ending with .onmicrosoft.com.

• The DOMAIN, DOMAIN USER NAME, DOMAIN PASSWORD, and CONFIRM PASSWORD parameters are applicable only if the eG agent needs to communicate with the Office 365 portal via a Proxy server.

  In this case, in the Domain text box, specify the name of the Windows domain to which the eG agent host belongs. In the DOMAIN USER NAME text box, mention the name of a valid domain user with login rights to the eG agent host. Provide the password of that user in the DOMAIN PASSWORD text box and confirm that password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

  On the other hand, if the eG agent is not behind a Proxy server, then you need not disturb the default setting of these parameters. By default, these parameters are set to none.

• The PROXY HOST, PROXY PORT, PROXY USER NAME, and PROXY PASSWORD parameters are applicable only if the eG agent needs to communicate with the Office 365 portal via a Proxy server.

  In this case, provide the IP/host name and port number of the Proxy server that the eG agent should use in the Proxy Host and Proxy Port parameters, respectively.

  If the Proxy server requires authentication, then specify the credentials of a valid Proxy user against the PROXY USER NAME and PROXY PASSWORD text boxes. Confirm that password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box. If the Proxy server does not require authentication, then specify none against the PROXY USER NAME, PROXY PASSWORD, and CONFIRM PASSWORD text boxes.

  On the other hand, if the eG agent is not behind a Proxy server, then you need not to disturb the default setting of any of the Proxy-related parameters. By default, these parameters are set to none.

• The DD FREQUENCY refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. The default is 1:1. This indicates that, by default, detailed measures will be generated every time this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem. You can modify this frequency, if you so desire. Also, if you intend to disable the detailed diagnosis capability for this test, you can do so by specifying none against DD FREQUENCY.

• Once the above values are provided, click on the UPDATE button to register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz*” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.