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The HealthMon management console is a component of Systems Management Server (SMS) that provides a central, graphical, real-time status view of Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 or higher and BackOffice servers. Based on color-coded severity levels, you can view operational conditions, including both normal and exception status. As events are received, HealthMon organizes and displays them according to predefined monitored object groups (MMC nodes).

Related Topics 

Add a Monitored System 

About Monitored Systems 

About Monitored Components 

Navigating the HealthMon Console 

Viewing HealthMon Information 

System Requirements for HealthMon 

HealthMon Console Overview 

About HealthMon Monitoring

The monitoring component of HealthMon bundles a set of predefined monitoring policies that identify the metrics and criteria for normal, abnormal (Warning and Critical), and Unknown conditions. These policies control how HealthMon identifies and presents normal and abnormal operating conditions. As a result, you do not need to determine what to monitor or what might constitute an exception.

As events are received, HealthMon organizes and displays them according to predefined monitored object groups (MMC nodes). These object groups comprise system-level resources (processor, memory, paging file, physical disk, network interface, server work queues, security, and fault server) and BackOffice servers (SNA Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server, and IIS Server). The use of resource- and server-monitored object groups can help you more easily interpret the impact of each event condition. In addition, you can view the individual status of all monitored systems and the occurrence of all events.

Related Topics 

Set Monitored Component Thresholds 

Add a Monitored System 

Delete a Monitored System 

About Monitored Systems 

About Monitored Components 

About Customizing Monitoring Policies and Conditions 

HealthMon Console Overview 

About Monitored Components

HealthMon monitors each system that you configure for the components that you specify. You can either use the default thresholds or configure the thresholds specific to your environment. Then, HealthMon will alert you to network and system problem areas so that you can resolve them.

Note To enable the physical and logical disk counters, type diskperf at a command prompt and follow the instructions. You can use this command to report whether or not the disk performance counters have been enabled on the local or a remote computer.

The following table lists the components that HealthMon monitors and their counters.

Component name

Counters monitored

Processor 

Interrupts Per Second
Percent Total System Time

Memory 

Available Memory Bytes
Page Reads Per Second
Pages Per Second
Percent Committed Bytes to Limit
Pool Non-Paged Bytes

Paging File 

Percent Peak Usage
Percentage Usage

Logical Disk 

Percent Free Disk Space

Physical Disk 

Disk Queue Length
Diskperf Driver Started
Percent Disk Time

Network Interface 

Bytes Total/Sec

Server Work Queues 

Context Blocks Queued/Sec
Processor Queue Length

Security 

Errors Access Permissions
Errors Logon

Fault 

Pool Non-Paged Failures
Pool Paged Failures
Sessions Errored Out

SQL Server 

MSDTC Service Started
MSSQLServer Service Started

Internet Information Services (IIS) 

IIS Service Started

Exchange Server 

MSEXCHANGEDS Service Started
MSEXCHANGEIS Service Started
MSEXCHANGEMTA Service Started
MSEXCHANGESA Service Started

SNA Server 

Host Connection Status
SNABASE Service Started

SMS 

SMS_Executive Service Started
SMS_Site_Component_Manager Service Started
SMS_SQL_Monitor Service Started

Note Available components vary from system to system and reflect the operating system, SMS, and BackOffice software installed. You can disable monitoring of specific components in the System Properties dialog box.

Related Topics 

Add a Monitored System 

Delete a Monitored System 

Monitored System Overview 

System: Components 

System: Events

Component: Systems

About Monitored Systems 

About Customizing Monitoring Policies and Conditions 

HealthMon Console Overview 

HealthMon Console Overview

The HealthMon management console is a component of Systems Management Server (SMS) that provides a graphical, and real-time status view of Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 or greater and BackOffice servers. You can view operational conditions based on color-coded severity levels. As events are received, HealthMon organizes and displays them according to predefined monitored object groups (MMC nodes).

The HealthMon console tree displays a hierarchical listing of HealthMon functions. You can view the status of each monitored system, component, and all events.

You navigate the HealthMon console tree by moving from item to item, expanding and collapsing branches as needed to expose the item that contains the information you want to see. To expand and collapse items in the HealthMon console tree, click the PLUS SIGN (+) or MINUS SIGN (-) (if they exist) adjacent to each item.

When you use the HealthMon console, you follow this general pattern:

  • Determine the task you want to perform.

  • Find the appropriate item in the console tree.

  • Expand the console tree to expose additional child items until you find the item you need to use.

  • Alter the item's configuration by changing its properties.

For more information, see Navigating the HealthMon Console and Viewing HealthMon Information.

Elements of the HealthMon Console

The HealthMon console tree includes three major elements:

  • Monitored Systems 

  • Monitored Components 

  • All Events 

The following table lists specific administrative tasks and describes how you can accomplish these tasks by using each of the three major HealthMon console items.

Using this console tree item

Enables you to

Monitored Systems

View All Systems, view individual monitored systems, and view the properties of Monitored Systems, where you can add new monitored systems.

Monitored Components

View individual components, view the status of all systems by component, view the status of individual monitored systems by component, and configure thresholds for each component.

All Events

View all events for all monitored systems, characterized by severity, system, component, and the specific message associated with the event.

Related Topics 

Set Monitored Component Thresholds 

About Monitored Systems 

About Monitored Components 

System Requirements for HealthMon 

HealthMon Overview 

Add a Monitored System

HealthMon monitors the activities, performance, and status of computer systems running Windows NT 4.0 and Windows NT 5.0. Use this procedure to add a computer system to the list of HealthMon's monitored systems.

  1. Cc723624.coe(en-us,TechNet.10).gif Navigate to Monitored Systems.

    HealthMon Tool
    Cc723624.elle(en-us,TechNet.10).gifMonitored Systems

  2. Right-click Monitored Systems, point to New, and then click System. 

  3. In the New Monitored System dialog box, type the name of the computer system you want to add, or click Browse to navigate to the appropriate computer system. 

  4. After you specify a server in the New Monitored System dialog box, click OK. The specified computer system appears under Monitored Systems. 

Related Topics 

Delete a Monitored System 

Monitored System Overview 

Monitored Systems: All Systems 

About Monitored Systems 

HealthMon Console Overview 

Delete a Monitored System

HealthMon monitors the activities, performance, and status of computer systems running Windows NT 4.0 and Windows NT 5.0. Use this procedure to delete a computer system from HealthMon's list of monitored systems.

  1. Cc723624.coe(en-us,TechNet.10).gif Navigate to System name.

    HealthMon Tool
    Cc723624.elle(en-us,TechNet.10).gifMonitored Systems
    Cc723624.elle(en-us,TechNet.10).gifSystem name 

  2. Right-click the system name, and then click Delete. 

  3. In the confirmation dialog box, click Yes. 

Related Topics 

Add a Monitored System 

About Monitored Systems 

HealthMon Console Overview 

Set Monitored Component Thresholds

Each monitored component has thresholds that determine whether the state of that component is Normal, Warning, or Critical. Use this procedure to modify those thresholds.

  1. Cc723624.coe(en-us,TechNet.10).gif Navigate to Components.

    HealthMon Tool
    Cc723624.elle(en-us,TechNet.10).gifMonitored Systems
    Cc723624.elle(en-us,TechNet.10).gifSystem name
    Cc723624.elle(en-us,TechNet.10).gifComponents 

  2. In the details pane, right-click the component whose thresholds you want to change, and then click Properties. 

  3. In the Component Properties dialog box, click the General tab. 

  4. In the Component Properties list, click the property whose thresholds you want to change. 

  5. Click the Threshold tab. 

  6. Set the threshold limits that are appropriate for your environment. 

Note The thresholds that you set for each component on a monitored system affect the summary statistics that appear in the details pane when you select that system in the console tree.

Related Topics 

System: Components 

Component: Systems 

About Monitored Systems 

HealthMon Console Overview 

About Monitored Systems

Monitored systems can be SMS site servers or other site system roles, or any other computers that have the HealthMon Agent installed.

Cc723624.coe(en-us,TechNet.10).gif Navigation to All Systems.

HealthMon Tool
Cc723624.elle(en-us,TechNet.10).gifMonitored Systems
Cc723624.elle(en-us,TechNet.10).gifAll Systems

When you click All Systems, the details pane lists each server that HealthMon monitors and displays a summary of each server's monitored component status.

Important If you change the View setting for All Systems, the information displayed in this console item will not match the information in the following table. To view the the summary data for each system, right-click All Systems and change the View setting to Detail.

The following table describes the contents of each All Systems column.

Column name

Column information

System

A status summary icon and the name of the system that HealthMon is monitoring.

Monitored Time

The length of time (expressed in days:hours:minutes:seconds) during which HealthMon collected information about the system.

Percent Normal

The percentage of a specific system's monitored components that are in the Normal state.

Percent Warning

The percentage of a specific system's monitored components that are in the Warning state.

Percent Critical

The percentage of a specific system's monitored components that are in the Critical state.

Note You can change the thresholds for each monitored component's Normal, Warning, and Critical states. For more information, see Set Monitored Component Thresholds.

Related Topics 

Add a Monitored System 

Delete a Monitored System 

Monitored System Overview 

HealthMon Console Overview

About All Events

HealthMon includes a console item called All Events. Use this item to view Critical, Warning, Normal, and Unknown events that occur on any monitored system. To view server events, navigate to All Events in the HealthMon console.

Cc723624.coe(en-us,TechNet.10).gif Navigation to All Events.

HealthMon Tool
Cc723624.elle(en-us,TechNet.10).gifAll Events

The following table describes the content of each All Events column.

Column name

Column information

Severity

A status icon and the severity of the event (Normal, Critical, Warning, or Unknown).

Date/Time

The date and time of the event.

System

The name of the monitored system where the event occurred.

Component

The component that triggered the event.

Message

Additional information about the event.

Related Topics 

Delete an Event 

HealthMon Console Overview 

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