Monitor Counter

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator

The Monitor Counter activity invokes a runbook when a counter has reached a value that you specify. Each Monitor Counter activity monitors one counter.

Use the Monitor Counter activity to monitor a counter that counts the number of times that a runbook has attempted to start a service. When that number reaches the number that you configure in the Monitor Counter activity, the Monitor Counter activity can invoke a Send Email activity to notify an administrator to investigate the problem.

Before you configure the Monitor Counter activity, you need to determine the following:

• The Counter you will be monitoring.

  Warning

  Before you can use this activity, you must configure a Counter.

• The value that will invoke the runbook

Use the following information to configure the Monitor Counter activity.

Published Data

The following table lists the published data items.