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Measures reported by MossProjTest
SharePoint Server monitoring includes delivering comprehensive fault management and proactive alert notifications, checking for impending problems, triggering appropriate actions and gathering performance data for planning, analysis, and reporting.
Monitoring SharePointServer can yield information in the following areas:
- Overseeing overall system health
- Detecting and predicting trends
- Detecting errors
- Ensuring good backups of your servers data
Monitoring SharePoint server servers the purpose of avoiding service outages by detecting problems before they become critical.
This test is used to provide counters that monitor the activities of the gatherer process when crawling external documents and can report IFilter and protocol handler errors.
The measures
made by this test are as
follows:
| Measurement |
Description |
Measurement
Unit |
Interpretation |
| Document_add_rate |
Indicates the number of document additions per second.
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Documents/sec |
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| Error_rate |
Indicates the number of filtered documents which returned an error per second.
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Documents/sec |
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| Incremental_crawls |
Indicates the number of incremental crawls in progress.
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Number |
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| Retries |
Indicates the total number of times that access to a document has been retried.
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Number |
A high value of this measure indicates that the gatherer is attempting to access a document numerous times, without success. You should check the gatherer logs and identify the problem document. Then ensure that it has the correct extension and that you have the correct IFilter for it.
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| Waiting_documents |
Indicates the number of waiting documents that has to be processed. This number indicates the total queue size of unprocessed documents in the gatherer.
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Number |
When value of this measure reaches 0 it implies that the catalog is idle.
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