Setting Up Reporting in the Windows Servers Base Operating System State Management Pack

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By default, the Microsoft Windows Servers Base Operating System Management Pack requires no additional configuration to run reports. However, support for reporting on Windows NT 4.0 computers is limited.

If you are having difficulty gathering data within the reports, verify that dependent rules are enabled.

Enabling Dependent Rules

To collect the data that is used by reports, you must enable the associated processing rules. In the Microsoft Windows Servers Base Operating System Management Pack, these are enabled by default. The following table lists the processing rules that must be enabled for each report. Ensure that the rules are enabled for each version of the operating system.

Table 9 Processing Rules That Gather Data for Reports

Report

Processing Rule

Default State

Disk Performance Analysis

The following rules in the \State Monitoring and Service Discovery\Performance Rules group:

  • PhysicalDisk\Avg. Disk Queue Length\_Total

  • PhysicalDisk\Disk Reads/sec.\_Total

  • PhysicalDisk\Disk Writes/sec.\_Total

  • PhysicalDisk\Avg. Disk sec./Transfer\_Total

  • PhysicalDisk\Disk Bytes/sec.\_Total

Enabled

Operating System Configuration

\State Monitoring and Service Discovery\Base OS Service Discovery

Enabled

Operating System Performance

The following rules in the \Performance\Performance Rules group:

  • Performance Measuring: Processor\% Processor Time

  • Performance Measuring: System\Processor Queue Length

  • Performance Measuring: Memory\Available MBytes

  • Performance Measuring: Memory\Pages/sec.

The following rules in the \Storage\Performance Rules group:

  • Performance Measuring: LogicalDisk\% Free Space

Enabled

Operating System Shutdown by Event

The following rules in the \Reliability\Event Rules rule group:

  • System Stopped: The computer has cleanly shut down and is no longer available (Collection).

  • System Running: The computer experienced a dirty shutdown before restarting (Collection).

  • System Running: The computer has finished restarting and is now available (Collection).

Enabled

Operating System Shutdown by Server

The following rules in the \Reliability\Event Rules rule group:

  • System Stopped: The computer has cleanly shut down and is no longer available (Collection).

  • System Running: The computer experienced a dirty shutdown before restarting (Collection).

  • System Running: The computer has finished restarting and is now available (Collection).

Enabled

Operating System Storage Configuration

State Monitoring and Service Discovery\Run Storage Discovery

Enabled

Software and Applications Installations by Application

State Monitoring and Service Discovery\Base OS Service Discovery

Enabled

Software and Applications Installations by Instance

State Monitoring and Service Discovery\Base OS Service Discovery

Enabled

Software and Applications Installations by Server

State Monitoring and Service Discovery\Base OS Service Discovery

Enabled

Reliability - Application Failures by Application

Reliability\The application generated an application error (Collection).

Enabled

Reliability - Application Failures by Computer

Reliability\The application generated an application error (Collection).

Enabled

Reliability - Application Failures by Event

Reliability\The application generated an application error (Collection).

Enabled

Reliability - Operating System Failures by Computer

Reliability\System Running: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck (Collection).

Enabled

Reliability - Operating System Failures by Event

Reliability\System Running: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck (Collection).

Enabled

Reliability - Operating System Failures by Stop Code

Reliability\System Running: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck (Collection).

Enabled

Performance History - Performance History

Rules that collect the performance data for the selected performance object and counter must be enabled. Rules for performance objects and counter might belong to other Management Packs. In the Microsoft Windows Servers Base Operating System Management Pack, these rules are located in the following rule groups:

  • \Performance\Performance Rules

  • \Storage\Performance Rules

Enabled

Performance History - Additional Reports

The corresponding rules in the following rule groups:

  • \Performance\Performance Rules

  • \Storage\Performance Rules

Enabled

Support for Reporting on Windows NT 4.0 Computers

Many of the reports in this management pack are not supported or are not applicable for Windows NT 4.0 computers. The following reports are supported on Windows NT 4.0 computers:

  • Operating System Configuration

  • Software and Application Installations by Application

  • Software and Application Installations by Instance

  • Software and Application Installations by Server