Re: SBS 2003 Extended Server usage Report



Hi Mikek,

Thanks for updating.

I am sorry for misunderstanding your question. You want to know the
difference between Health Monitor and Monitoring and Reporting. If I am
off-base, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Health Monitor is a service in Small Business Server 2000 or Small Business
Server 2003. It can monitor hardware such as processors and disks, server
application, such as Microsoft SQL, server and Exchange Server and network
devices or application. It can set thresholds (a threshold is a measurement
setting in a performance monitor) that will alert you when they are
exceeded. It??s a component of Monitoring and Reporting of SBS server and
help to gather information for reporting.

The SBS Monitoring is just one piece of the entire puzzle of SBS
administration. The monitoring tools included in Small Business Server
collect complex data and generate reports and alerts that contain the most
critical information. It can monitor server performance and detect fault
conditions before they occur.

Hope the above information helps.

If you need further assistance, please don't hesitate to let me know.


Best regards,

Robert Li(MSFT)

Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support

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<Thanks for the info.
<
<I guess my question is: what is the difference between the Health Monitor
<and the Monitor you site here?
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<They seem to be separate.
<
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<"Robert Li [MSFT]" <v-robeli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
<news:6tR7qyERHHA.196@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<> Hi Mikek,
<>
<> Thanks for posting in our newsgroup.
<>
<> From your description, I know that you want to know how much resource the
<> Monitoring and Reporting uses when you gather the Performance and Usage
<> report. If I am off-base, please don¡¯t hesitate to let me know.
<>
<> The SBS 2003 Monitoring and Reporting can monitor your server
performance,
<> usage, health status and create report. To avoid the huge usage of system
<> resources, by default, the Server Status Report starts at 6:00 AM every
<> day, the Server Usage Reporting starts at 6:00 AM weekly. When it runs,
<> the
<> impact to system performance is unavoidable. So if you changed the
default
<> schedule time, please reschedule the task to run at a non- business hour
<> to
<> reduce the impact.
<>
<> To do this, please take the following steps:
<> 1. Open Server Management and click Monitoring and Reporting.
<> 2. Click change Server Status Reporting Setting and click Next.
<> 3. Click Server Performance Report and click Edit. On the Schedule tab,
<> change the Start time and then click OK.
<> 4. Click Server Usage Report and click Edit. On the Schedule tab, change
<> the Start time and then click OK.
<> 5. Click Close.
<>
<> Based on my research, we can only get the following information about the
<> average performance in the report
<>
<> 1. Memory in use: Specifies the average amount of memory used over the
<> past
<> 24 hours.
<> 2. Free disk space: Specifies the amount of free disk space available in
<> the most recent sample recorded in the database.
<> 3. Busy disk time: Specifies the average percent of time the disk was
busy
<> over the past 24 hours.
<> 4. CPU use: Specifies the average percent of CPU use over the past 24
<> hours.
<>
<> We cannot get any information about resource used when gathering
<> Performance and Usage information which runs process mssbssr.exe. If you
<> want to get that information, you have to write a program, but we don¡¯t
<> provide such kind of service according our newsgroup policy. Thanks for
<> understanding.
<>
<> In addition, Performance Monitor of SBS server can help to monitor CPU,
<> memory usage and so on of the process of Monitoring and Reporting£¬please
<> contact CSS for more help on how to monitor the process with Performance
<> Monitor.
<>
<> For more information, please refer to:
<>
<> Monitoring overview
<>
<>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sbs/2003/support/c2f640e4-482a-
<> 46ab-b91f-eb273f581a87.mspx?mfr=true
<>
<> Microsoft VBscript
<>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/ht
<> ml/vtoriVBScript.asp
<>
<> If you need further assistance, please don¡¯t hesitate to let know.
<>
<> Best regards,
<>
<> Robert Li(MSFT)
<>
<> Microsoft CSS Online Newsgroup Support
<>
<> Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security
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<> <From: "Purtech" <mikek(remove)@hlit.net>
<> <Subject: SBS 2003 Extended Server usage Report
<> <Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:50:51 -0600
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<> <How much of a resouce hog is this report?
<> <
<> <The wizard scheduled it to email the report at 6;00 a.m., but is itself
<> <using a lot of resources?
<> <
<> <It is gathering Performance and usage data.
<> <
<> <Thanks!
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