Microsoft DNS

• Supported OS
• What is Discovered and Monitored
• Configuration
• Settings for Access Credentials

Supported OS

• Windows 2003
• Windows 2008 and 2008 R2
• Windows 2012 and 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019

What is Discovered and Monitored

Protocol	Information discovered	Metrics collected	Used for
SNMP	Application type	Process level CPU utilization, Memory utilization	Performance Monitoring
WMI	Application type, service mappings	Process level metrics (Win32_Process, Win32_PerfRawData_PerfProc_Process): uptime, CPU utilization, Memory utilization, Read I/O, Write I/O DNS metrics (Win32_PerfFormattedData_DNS_DNS): DNS requests received, DNS responses sent, WINS requests received, WINS responses sent, Recursive DNS queries received, Recursive DNS queries failed, Recursive DNS queries timeout, Dynamic DNS updates received, Dynamic DNS updates failed, Dynamic DNS updates timeout, Secure DNS update received, Secure DNS update failed, Full DNS Zone Transfer requests sent, Full DNS Zone Transfer requests received, Incremental DNS Zone Transfer requests sent, ncremental DNS Zone Transfer requests received	Performance Monitoring
Windows Agent	Application type	DNS name resolution activity: DNS Query Success and Failure by type	Security Monitoring

Event Types

In ADMIN > Device Support > Event Types, search for "microsoft dns" to see the event types associated with this device.

Configuration

• SNMP

• WMI

• FortiSIEM Windows Agent

SNMP

See SNMP Configurations in the Microsoft Windows Server Configuration section.

WMI

See WMI Configurations in the Microsoft Windows Server Configuration section.

FortiSIEM Windows Agent

For information on configuring DNS for FortiSIEM Windows Agent, see Collecting DNS Logs from Microsoft Windows Server via Agents.

Microsoft recommends that customers enable DNS Analytical logs only to debug DNS traffic or to troubleshoot DNS server issues. Enabling DNS Analytical logs can cause system performance issues (see Microsoft Logging and Diagnostics).

Settings for Access Credentials

See Setting Access Credentials in the Microsoft Windows Server Configuration section.