eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by SPHealthTest

SharePoint includes a tool named SharePoint Health Analyzer that enables you to diagnose and resolve configuration, performance, and usage problems. SharePoint Health Analyzer runs predefined health rules against servers in the farm. A health rule runs a test and returns an alert that tells you the outcome of the test. Every alert will indicate its severity - i.e., whether it is an Error, Warning, Information, or a Rule execution failure. Also, depending upon their nature, alerts are also automatically grouped into any of the standard categories, namely - Security, Performance, Configuration, or Availability - or can be part of any user-configured category. Every alert will also indicate the category to which it belongs.

The SPHealthTest test captures these alerts, ascertains their severity and category, and reports the count of alerts that were raised per severity for every category of alerts. You can also use the detailed diagnostics provided by this test to view the complete alert messages, the health rules that generated the alerts, and the server and services that were impacted by the problems for which the alerts were generated. This will not only lead you to the problem areas, but will also shed light on the probable problem cause, so that you can resolve the issue quickly.

Output of the test : One set of results for each alert category

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Error_messages Indicates the number of error alerts of this category that were currently generated by the Health Analyzer. Number Ideally, the value of this measure should be 0. If a non-zero value is reported, then use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to understand the errors that occurred and the servers and services impacted by the same.
Information_messages Indicates the number of information alerts of this category that were currently generated by the Health Analyzer. Number Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to view the information messages and the servers and services that they pertain to.
Warning_messages Indicates the number of warning alerts of this category that were currently generated by the Health Analyzer . Number Ideally, the value of this measure should be 0. If a non-zero value is reported, then use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to view the warning messages and the servers and services that may be impacted by the warnings.
Rule_exe_failure_msg Indicates the number of rule execution failure messages of this category that were currently generated by the Health Analyzer. Number Ideally, the value of this measure should be 0. If a non-zero value is reported, then use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to view the descriptive messages and to determine which servers and services failed because of rule execution failure.