Health monitoring (SharePoint Server 2010)

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation 2010

The articles in this section are written to meet the requirements of information technology (IT) professionals who are responsible for the planning, design, deployment, and operations of monitoring. These solutions might be in enterprise, corporate, or branch-office environments. The IT professionals who are responsible for monitoring solutions are expected to have an understanding of the technical details that are contained in this section. However, service-level expertise is not needed to understand the enterprise-level discussions and decisions.

The monitoring features in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 help you to understand how the SharePoint Server 2010 system is running, analyze and repair problems, and view metrics for the sites. Monitoring the SharePoint Server 2010 environment includes the following tasks:

1. Configuring the various aspects of monitoring to suit business needs.

2. Monitoring the environment and resolving any problems that might arise.

3. Viewing reports and logs of the environment activity.

Monitoring

Included in this section:

• Monitoring overview (SharePoint Server 2010)

• Configuring monitoring (SharePoint Server 2010)

• Viewing reports and logs (SharePoint Server 2010)

• Solving problems and troubleshooting (SharePoint Server 2010)

• Monitor health and performance of a virtual environment (SharePoint Server 2010)