Monitoring the Information Store

Take a proactive approach to monitoring server performance and the growth of the information store. Be prepared with a plan to remedy any issues. Set up Windows NT disk space alerts to monitor remaining disk space. Windows NT Performance Monitor objects exist for the information store and should be used. The LogicalDisk object, along with the % Free Space and Free Megabytes counters, are used to monitor and trigger alerts when disk space is low.

Log files accumulating on the disk can cause the information store or directory to run out of operating space. To prevent this, do one of the following:

• Write the log files to a different drive.
• Change the location where the information store or directory store transaction logs are written. To do so, select the server object. From the File menu, choose Properties. Then select the Database Paths tab. Change the path names for the information store and directory transaction logs, and then choose OK.
• Use Ntbackup.exe to perform a normal (full) or incremental online backup of the server. This utility automatically deletes transaction logs that are no longer needed (they have been committed to disk). If you do not run Ntbackup, the log files continue to accumulate.

  Note   This method is not supported on servers where circular logging is enabled because the transaction logs are required for incremental and differential backups

• If possible, delete any sample applications to increase disk space.