Monitoring in Site Properties

When you enable monitoring in Site Properties you can then select any number of available alerts. When an alert you have selected reaches its threshold level, Enterprise Vault writes an appropriate entry in the Application Event Log. Enterprise Vault also shows the alert in the Status section of the Administration Console.

Additionally, when you enable any of the alerts, Enterprise Vault turns on a performance counter for that alert. Thus you can monitor the counter using the Windows Performance Monitor or any other programs that you use to monitor performance counters.

To enable monitoring

  1. In the left pane of the Administration Console, right-click the vault site and, on the shortcut menu, click Properties.

  2. Click the Monitoring tab of Site Properties.

  3. Select the items for which you want to receive notifications.

    For each item, you can click the following to modify them:

    Threshold

    This is the level at which Enterprise Vault issues a notification. For example, if Directory Backup has a threshold of 2 Days, then a warning is issued if the Enterprise Vault has not been backed up after 2 Days.

    Frequency

    This is how often Enterprise Vault checks this item. In the case of performance-related items, this is the frequency with which Enterprise Vault writes the associated performance counter.

    Start At

    The time at which measuring starts. If you do not select a time, the statistics are collected when the monitoring process starts and then at the interval that is defined in the Frequency column.

  4. Click OK.