Understanding Forefront UAG operations

By performing daily, weekly, monthly, and on-demand operations, you can monitor the status and performance of your Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG), and detect any abnormal activity. It is important to implement these periodic maintenance and monitoring operations so that you can capture and maintain data for analysis, such as usage levels, possible performance bottlenecks, connectivity issues and administrative changes.

Periodic maintenance and monitoring operations enable you to do the following:

Make sure that performance requirements, as detailed in your baseline information, are met.
Make sure that specific administrative tasks, such as, backup operations and checking server health, are successfully completed.
Detect and address issues, such as, bottlenecks in the server performance, or the need for additional resources on your Forefront UAG servers.
Make sure that the servers in your Forefront UAG deployment are operating correctly.

The following lists some of the standard operation tasks that you must do for Forefront UAG and Forefront UAG DirectAccess, and their frequency. Use this list as a basis for generating maintenance and monitoring operations for your deployment. Specific details of these tasks are described later in the guide.

Task	Frequency	Required for
Checking the health of arrays	Daily	Forefront UAG and Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Monitoring the status of Forefront UAG services	Daily	Forefront UAG and Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Monitoring Windows Event Viewer messages	Daily	Forefront UAG and Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Monitoring Forefront UAG logs	Daily	Forefront UAG
Verifying the network location server is functioning	Daily	Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Checking Forefront UAG DirectAccess connectivity	Daily	Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)	Daily	Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Monitoring the status of updates	Weekly	Forefront UAG
Monitoring the status of certificates	Monthly	Forefront UAG and Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Monitoring users	On demand	Forefront UAG
Monitoring endpoint sessions	On demand	Forefront UAG
Monitoring applications	On demand	Forefront UAG
Monitoring and managing array members	On demand	Forefront UAG
Monitoring server resources	On demand	Forefront UAG
Checking connectivity	On demand	Forefront UAG
Checking that authentication servers are available	On demand	Forefront UAG
Querying events	On demand	Forefront UAG
Backing up Forefront UAG	On demand	Forefront UAG and Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Backing up and restoring with export and import	On demand	Forefront UAG and Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Maintaining Forefront UAG DirectAccess	On demand	Forefront UAG and Forefront UAG DirectAccess
Monitoring Forefront UAG DirectAccess clients and users in RTM	On demand	Forefront UAG DirectAccess