The Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of your AD LDS deployment running on Windows Server® 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 R2. It monitors events that are placed in the Application, System, and Service event logs by various AD LDS components and subsystems. It also monitors the overall health of the AD LDS system and alerts you to critical performance issues. The monitoring that is provided by this management pack includes monitoring of the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) instances and monitoring of health from the perspective of clients that use AD LDS resources. The AD LDS Management Pack provides a predefined, ready-to-run set of processing rules, monitoring scripts, and reports that are designed specifically to monitor the performance and availability of the AD LDS instances. An AD LDS client in your environment might experience connectivity and service issues even though your AD LDS server appears to be operating correctly. The AD LDS Client Perspective Management Pack, which is included in the Management Pack files to download, helps to identify these issues. This management pack monitors the services that the AD LDS instances provide. It provides information in addition to the information that is collected directly for the AD LDS instances about whether they are available by running transactions, such as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) binds, against the directory service.