SMS: Status Message Viewer Shows Conflicting Statistics

• Microsoft Systems Management Server version 2.0

SUMMARY

Discovery Data Manager and the status message viewer show conflicting statistics. For example, Discovery Data Manager shows 350 errors, 0 Warnings, 35 Informational messages "Since Installation", 14 errors, 0 Warnings, 19 Informational messages "Since 8:00 AM" and yet the status message viewer shows no messages.

If you are viewing the summary data with a Display Interval that is large, such as Since Site Installation or Since 1st of the Month (and it currently is the 30th), the messages could have already been automatically deleted from the database. The status filter rules specify which message should be stored in the database and how long they should be kept there. The SQL Monitor deletes the status messages that have aged beyond their specified lifetime. Even though the message has been deleted, the summary is not affected.

MORE INFORMATION

The administrator, or another user who has appropriate permissions, can delete the status messages from the database manually using the Status Message Viewer or by right-clicking on the Status Message Query and selecting Delete Messages. When you delete the messages, the summary is not affected.

If you are viewing the Component Status for a child site, it is possible that the summary was replicated to the parent site (the site you are currently on) before the status messages were replicated. By default, the summaries replicate at Medium priority and the status messages replicate at Low priority. The status filter rules configure what status messages are replicated and at what priority they replicate.

You can configure the status filter rules to not store the status message in the database, but still forward them to the summarizers. In this case, the summarizers will still produce the summaries, but the status messages will not be available. This configuration might actually be useful to administrators as well as dangerous to them.

If you are viewing statistics near the beginning of a new period like viewing at 7 a.m. the "Since 8:00:00 AM" display interval, you will be viewing statistics that are as old as 23 hours.

The component summarizer counts all incoming server status messages sent to it through the Status Manager according to the set of status filter rules. The incoming status messages are received by the Status Manager and evaluated to determine what it needs to do with them. Normally, Status Manager writes them to the status message tables in the database, and then forwards a copy of each to the component status summarizer.

The status messages in the database are cleared after they have been in there a set amount of time. The status counts in the component summarizer are never cleared. This will always show the total number of messages received at a site. Users with administrative rights can reset the message totals for Errors, Warnings, and Information.

Additional query words: prodsms smsstat

Keywords : kbMMC kbSMS200 kbStatSum
Version : winnt:2.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbinfo