Live reporting of KPI’s on Disk, Memory and Processor Counters

Lots of people work with the SLD 2.0 of SCOM 2007 R2. What lots of people don’t know that you can monitor thresholds and monitor the health of the environment with the built-in components of the Service Level Dashboard as shown in the picture:

Next steps are to create a dashboard to monitor if the Processor, Memory and Disk are performing within the threshold we going to set.

First step is of course to install the SharePoint WSS features and the SQL dashboard. Steps to install the software are described in the documentation of the SLD dashboard; this is not covered in this document.

-          Create a new “Service Level Tracking” item
-          Give it a name; in this example it’s called “Disk Usage”
-          Next
-          Select a class of object to target “Windows Server 2008 Operating System”
-          Scope it to “Agent Managed Computer Group”
-          Select a management pack to save the  data
-          Next
-          Choose Add; “Collection rule SLO”

 % Processor Time
Service level objective name:
-          % Processor Time
Targeted class
-          Windows Server 2008 Operating System
Performance collection rule
-          Processor % Processor Time Total 2008
Aggregation Method
-          Avarage
Service level objective goal:
-          Less Than 40

 Available MBytes
Service level objective name:
-         Available Megabytes
Targeted class
-          Windows Server 2008 Operating System
Performance collection rule
-          Memory Available Megabytes 2008
Aggregation Method
-          Avarage
Service level objective goal:
-          More Than 300

 Available MBytes
Service level objective name:
-         Available Megabytes
Targeted class
-          Windows Server 2008 Operating System
Performance collection rule
-          Memory Available Megabytes 2008
Aggregation Method
-          Avarage
Service level objective goal:
-          More Than 300

After these steps we have to insert the KPI’s in the SharePoint site.
-          Open the “http://localhost/default.aspx” site on the SharePoint site server
-         Edit the “Hidden Dashboard Configration”

-         Select the “Hidden Dashboard Configuration” and select the counters you want to see.

-         Browse to http://localhost/default.aspx and you see the dashboard as shown below