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Monitoring the Health of the Management Group

 

Updated: May 13, 2016

Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 - Operations Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Operations Manager

System Center 2012 – Operations Manager introduces a new dashboard view that provides a comprehensive picture of the health of your management group. The dashboard tries to answer the question, “do I need to do anything?”

The Management Group Health view allows you to see at a glance the health state of all management group functions, such as resource pools, and the management group infrastructure, such as management servers. It also shows you recent agent health state including gray agents, agent configuration for agents pending management, and agent versions.

You can display Management Group Health on a SharePoint site by using the Operations Manager Web Part, giving all authorized users a useful summary of management group status. For more information, see Using SharePoint to View Operations Manager Data.

Management Group Health automatically refreshes every 15 minutes by default. To manually refresh the view, right-click the view and click Refresh. It may take some time before the dashboard starts to show data. The agent data is recalculated every 15 minutes, and not when you refresh the dashboard.

This topic describes the specific information you will see in each cell of the Management Group Health dashboard view.

Management Group Functions

Health of management group functions

Management Group Functions shows you the health state of any of the following functions that are installed in your management group:

  • Agentless exception monitoring

  • Audit collection services

  • System Center Data Access service group

  • System Center Management service group

  • Network discovery

  • Resource pools

  • Web user interfaces (web console and reporting web site)

You can open Health Explorer, alert view, diagram view, event view, performance view, and state view for any of the functions listed. To open a different view, right-click the display name for the function, and click Health Explorer or Navigation.

Management Group Infrastructure

Health of management group infrastructure

Management Group Infrastructure shows you the health state of any of the following infrastructure features that are installed in your management group:

  • Operational database

  • Data warehouse database

  • Management group

  • Management servers

  • Gateway servers

  • Agents

You can open Health Explorer, alert view, diagram view, event view, performance view, and state view for any of the features listed. To open a different view, right-click the display name for the feature, and click Health Explorer or Navigation.

Agent Health State

Health of agents over past 7 days

Agent Health State displays a graph of health states for all agents over the past 7 days.

Note

The screenshot for Agent Health State displays 9 hour’s worth of data. As additional data is collected, the scale will compress to show a maximum of 7 day’s worth of data.

The graph captures all possible agent states, including “unavailable”, or “gray”, agents. It is possible to unselect health states, if you only want to focus on certain health states.

Agent Configuration

Agents pending approval or installation failed

In Agent Configuration, you can see how the status of agents in the Pending Management folder in the Administration workspace. Agents can be pending management for the following reasons:

  • Manual agent install

  • Installation in progress

  • Agent update in progress

  • Repair in progress

  • Agent license limit exceeded

  • Failed agent installation

  • Agent requires update

  • Repair failed

Agent Versions

Version number installed on agents

Agent Versions lists the number of agents running each agent version number, including cumulative updates.