Health Analyzer Rule Definitions in SharePoint

Health Analyzer Rule Definitions

One of my clients reported a SQL Server disk space issue. Normally, SharePoint would report this as a Health Issue.

We can check whether the 
rule is enabled or not.

Solution

Open Central Administration then slelct "Monitoring" > "Review Rule Definitions".

Health Analyzer Monitroing

You can see dozens of rules listed.

Health Analyzer Rules

They have the following properties:

1.       Enabled/Disabled
2.       Scheduled as hourly, daily, weekly
3.       Attempt to repair automaticallyTowards the end we can verify the rule is enabled or not.

 

Enabling or Disabling Health Analyzer Rule

We can click on the line item to edit it.

Editing Line item in Sharepoint

Check the "Enabled" property and "Save" the changes.

Enable Property in Sharepoint

Once enabled, SharePoint monitors the SQL Server disk space issues and notifies.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ee534957(v=office.14).aspx