Defining Group Policy Management
Go to Start > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management. Under Domains, all the domains in your Active Directory will be listed. Right-click the domain in which all your servers are connected. Click Create a GPO in this domain, and Link it here. GPO refers to Group Policy Objects, which are a set of Group Policy settings that instruct the server and influence the what, how, and why of any action associated with the endpoints under a domain.
Provide a name for the GPO. Right-click it and click Edit. In the Group Policy Management Editor window, select Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Scripts > Startup. Double-click Startup. In the Startup Properties window, click Add, and then click Browse. This is to make Active Directory run the selected script.
From the File Explorer, select the script you created earlier. Close the Group Policy Management Editor window, and then click OK.
The next time the servers in Active Directory are restarted, the Windows server monitoring agent will be installed, and the monitors can be viewed under the Servers tab in Site24x7.
Conclusion
This is how you can use Site24x7 to monitor more than 20,000 servers installed through Active Directory. Site24x7 is a robust IT monitoring and log management platform that helps you achieve perfect clarity for your applications, servers, and allied digital resources. Save time by utilizing Active Directory to deploy server monitoring agents on multiple servers at once. You can tweak the Visual Basic script as per your requirements to include proxy credentials, assign tags to the server monitors, configure how you would like to receive alerts, and much more.