eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by ADLostFndTest

On a domain controller, the Lost and Found container contains Active Directory objects that have been orphaned. An object is orphaned when the object is created on one domain controller and the container in which the object is placed is deleted from the directory on another domain controller before the object has a chance to replicate. An orphaned object is automatically placed in the Lost and Found container where it can be found by an administrator.

This test reports the number of orphaned objects currently in the Lost and Found container, provides the details of these objects, so that administrators can determine which objects to move and which ones to delete.

This test applies only to Active Directory Servers installed on Windows 2008.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
No_of_objects_found Indicates the number of objects currently available in the Lost and Found container. Number A non-zero value indicates the existence of orphaned objects. Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know which obects to move and which ones to delete.