Diagnostic Manager 5.0.1 - User Guide

Farm Topology

How often the Collection Service refreshes the list of servers that make up the SharePoint farms and Server Groups.

Configuration

How often the Collection Service checks the configuration and SharePoint Health Analyzer reports for the servers that make up the SharePoint farm.

Farm Databases

The option to Monitor All DBs within SharePoint farms or Monitor Content DBs and System DBs only

StoragePoint

If you use  StoragePoint to manage Remote BLOB Storage (RBS) in you SharePoint environment, how often the Collection Service collects StoragePoint jobs execution.

SharePoint Content Summary Collection Schedule

The time of day and the days of the week that the Collection Service collects farm object counts and sizes.  By default, the Collection Service retrieves this information every day at 1:00 AM.

Alternate Access Mapping Options

If your SharePoint environment uses Alternate Access Mappings, the zone whose url you want the Collection Service to use first for Content Summary data collection.

NOTE:  If you do not enable this option, the Collection Service always uses the Default zone first.

Page Monitoring Options

Select whether you want to Ignore SSL Certificate errors.

List Options

An indication of whether the Collection Service should, in Content Summary data collection:

·Include hidden lists

·Include all document versions, and/or

·Include attachments.

NOTE:  If your environment includes a large number of hidden lists and/or document versions, including them could noticeably increase the duration of the data collection operation.

Threading Options

The maximum number of threads the Collection Service should use when performing a Content Summary data collection.  By default, this value coincides with the number of processing cores on the machine where the Collection Service runs.  It can, however, be adjusted.

CAUTION:  Increasing this value beyond double the number of cores on the Collection Service machine will not necessarily increase the speed of data collection and may negatively impact SharePoint performance.

NOTE: The options on this tab except for Threading Options, apply to SharePoint On-Premises farms only.  (Threading Options apply to both On-Premises farms and Office 365 tenants.)  Other Collection options for Office 365 tenants are specified on the Office365 tab.

Server Performance Collection

How often the Collection Service retrieves performance information from the monitored (Windows) servers.

SQL Server Performance Collection

How often the Collection Service retrieves performance information from the SQL servers.

Database Fragmentation Collection Schedule

The time of day and the days of the week that the Collection Service collects information about the database index fragmentation. By default, the Collection Service retrieves this information every day at 2:00 AM.

Windows Services Collection

How often the Collection Service collects Windows Services status information.

Application Pool Collection

How often the Collection Service retrieves Application Pool status and configuration information from WFE servers.