Monitis SharePoint Monitor at Uptime & Performance Tips

In this 3^rd article in our series about SharePoint Server we’ll discuss how easy it is to create custom Monitis monitor to manage the performance of our SharePoint environment. The VBScript SharePoint monitoring source code is available for download from Github public repository and can be easily modified if you want to add additional metrics. The monitor as it is includes support for CPU and Memory subsystem metrics, ASP metrics, and some of the relevant SQL server metrics.

The list below shows the performance counters (and their purpose) included in this monitor. We have mentioned most of these metrics in our previous SharePoint article, but for the purpose of this VBScript monitor we’ll touch on them again:

Objects and Counters	Problem	Resolution Options
Processor
Processor – % Processor Time	Over 75-85%	Upgrade processorIncrease number of processorsAdd additional server(s)
Memory
Available Mbytes	Less than 2GB on a Web server.	Add memory.
Cache Faults/sec	Greater than 1	Add memoryIncrease cache speed or size if possibleMove data to an alternative disk or server
Pages/sec	Greater than 10	Add memory
ASP.NET
Requests Queued	Hundreds or thousands of requests queued.	Implement additional Web serversThe default maximum for this counter is 5,000, and you can change this setting in the Machine.config file
Request Wait Time	As the number of wait events increases, users will experience degraded page rendering performance.	Implement additional Web servers
Requests Rejected	Greater than 0	Implement additional Web servers

Installing the SharePoint monitor

After you downloaded the code from Git, you can install the custom monitor by executing the following command from a command window:

Cscript AddCustomSharepointMonitor.vbs

This command creates a new monitor page on the Monitis dashboard for SharePoint and adds the specific monitors. Of course no data is displayed until we actually run the monitor. To run the monitor and start collecting performance data execute the following command:

Cscript PushCustomSharePointData.vbs

Once performance data is being collected you’ll be able to bring up your dashboard, select the SharePoint tab and monitor the health of your SharePoint system.

That’s it for the custom SharePoint monitor. Make sure to refer to our previous two articles in this series for a detailed description of these (and other) relevant performance counters for SharePoint. After you download the code from Git, you can of course add more counters to this dashboard page.