From: Andrew Bartlett Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:23:39 +0000 (+1300) Subject: WHATSNEW: Add section for "samba-tool visualize" X-Git-Tag: tevent-0.9.36~254 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=83d42203d7d7f7171d44724720fa5cd99590b90b;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git WHATSNEW: Add section for "samba-tool visualize" (text from the commit message by Douglas adding the feature) BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13226 Signed-off-by: Andrew Bartlett Reviewed-by: Garming Sam --- diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index f2da373b4b2..73549c5428f 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -88,6 +88,29 @@ The key file "encrypted_secrets.key" is created in the same directory as the database and should NEVER be disclosed. It is included by the samba_backup script. +Active Directory replication visualisation +------------------------------------------ + +To work out what is happening in a replication graph, it is sometimes +helpful to use visualisations. We introduce a samba-tool subcommand to +write Graphviz dot output and generate text-based heatmaps of the +distance in hops between DCs. + +There are two subcommands, two graphical modes, and (roughly) two modes of +operation with respect to the location of authority. + +`samba-tool visualize ntdsconn` looks at NTDS Connections. +`samba-tool visualize reps` looks at repsTo and repsFrom objects. + +In '--distance' mode (default), the distances between DCs are shown in +a matrix in the terminal. With '--color=yes', this is depicted as a +heatmap. With '--utf8' it is a lttle prettier. + +In '--dot' mode, Graphviz dot output is generated. When viewed using +dot or xdot, this shows the network as a graph with DCs as vertices +and connections edges. Certain types of degenerate edges are shown in +different colours or line-styles. + NT4-style replication based net commands removed ------------------------------------------------