Monitoring self-managed Active Directory updates - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

Monitoring self-managed Active Directory updates

You can monitor the progress of a self-managed Active Directory configuration update using the AWS Management Console, the API, or the AWS CLI, as described in the following procedures.

When you update your file system's self-managed Active Directory configuration, the file system's state switches from Available to Updating while the update is applied. Once the update is complete, the state switches back to Available. An Active Directory configuration update can take up to several minutes to complete.

In the Updates tab in the File system details window, you can view the 10 most recent updates for each update type.

Console screen shot showing recent updates list.

For self-managed Active Directory updates, you can view the following information.

Update type

Supported types are as follows:

  • DNS server IP address

  • Service account credentials

Target value

The desired value to update the file system property to. For Service account credentials updates, only the user name is shown, service account passwords are never included in this field.

Status

The current status of the update. For self-managed Active Directory updates, the possible values are as follows:

  • Pending – Amazon FSx has received the update request, but has not started processing it.

  • In progress – Amazon FSx is processing the update request.

  • Completed – The file system update completed successfully.

  • Failed – The file system update failed. Choose the question mark (?) to see details about the failure.

Progress %

Displays the progress of the file system update as percent complete.

Request time

The time that Amazon FSx received the update action request.

You can view and monitor file system update requests that are in progress using the describe-file-systems AWS CLI command and the DescribeFileSystems API action. The AdministrativeActions array lists the 10 most recent update actions for each administrative action type.

The following example shows an excerpt of the response of a describe-file-systems CLI command show two self-managed Active Directory file system updates.


        {
            "OwnerId": "111122223333",
            .
            .
            .
            "StorageCapacity": 1000,
            "AdministrativeActions": [
                {
                    "AdministrativeActionType": "FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE",
                    "RequestTime": 1581694766.757,
                    "Status": "PENDING",
                    "TargetFileSystemValues": {
                        "WindowsConfiguration": {
                            "SelfManagedActiveDirectoryConfiguration": {
                                "UserName": "serviceUser",
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "AdministrativeActionType": "FILE_SYSTEM_UPDATE",
                    "RequestTime": 1619032957.759,
                    "Status": "FAILED",
                    "TargetFileSystemValues": {
                        "WindowsConfiguration": {
                            "SelfManagedActiveDirectoryConfiguration": {
                            "DnsIps": [
                                    "10.0.138.161"
                                ]
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "FailureDetails": {
                        "Message": "Failure details message."
                    }
                }
            ],
     .
     .
     .