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Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 : Analysis and Troubleshooting Tools - Working with Status Messages (part 2) - Setting Status Message Viewer Options

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2. Setting Status Message Viewer Options

When SMS components or services generate status messages, they’re written to the site database. The Status Message Viewer uses the SMS Provider to query the database for the detailed messages when you use the technique described in the preceding section.

As shown in Figure 9, the Status Message Viewer for the site system status displays all the SMS components that are running on that site system or that affect it in any way. These messages are the same as those displayed for each component in the Component Status window. For example, the highlighted SMS_Site_Control_Manager message in Figure 9 is the same as the message highlighted in Figure 6.

Regardless of whether you’re viewing component status or site system status, the Status Message Viewer always displays the following information:

  • Severity Specifies whether the message category is info, warning, or error

  • Type Specifies whether the message type is milestone, detail, or audit

  • Site Code Specifies the three-character site code of the site for which the message was generated

  • Date / Time Specifies the time and date stamp indicating when the message was generated

  • System Specifies the server name of the site system for which the message was generated

  • Component Specifies the name of the SMS component or service that generated the message

  • Message ID Specifies the numeric code related to the task performed by the SMS component or service that generated the message

  • Description Provides a detailed description of the message

The Status Message Viewer provides many features that can facilitate your analysis of messages. Let’s begin with some of the GUI features. You can change the sort order of each column simply by clicking the column header. Each column has three sort options: click once to sort from lowest to highest, click again to sort from highest to lowest, and click once again to return to the default column order. You can, of course, resize the columns by clicking the border between each column heading and dragging to make the column wider or narrower. You can also move the columns to customize the display simply by dragging and dropping a column header to a new position.

By right-clicking any message entry to display its context menu, you can copy it, delete it, or display its Status Message Details window. You can also set a filter for the Status Message Viewer or refresh all the messages from this menu. You can select multiple messages for copying, deleting, and printing by using the Windows Explorer Ctrl-click method.

The Status Message Viewer also provides a variety of options and features that are enabled through the menus on its menu bar. Because most of these settings are self-evident, we’ll look here only at those that are unique or of particular interest to the SMS administrator—in particular, the options in the Status Viewer Options dialog box and the Filter Status Messages window.

The Status Viewer Options Dialog Box

Let’s start by discussing the Status Viewer Options dialog box. Begin by displaying the Status Message Viewer for a component or site system. Choose Options from the View menu to display the Status Viewer Options dialog box shown in Figure 10. The General tab is shown by default.

Figure 10. The Status Viewer Options dialog box.


The General Tab

The Status Message Viewer doesn’t refresh the interface with new messages by default unless you tell it to—for example, by pressing F5. The General tab lets you enable auto-refresh and specify a refresh interval. However, having the viewer automatically refresh itself will incur additional resource cost, so you shouldn’t select this option unless you intend to leave the viewer open for a long time—perhaps to follow the flow of a task or the generation of messages. You can also limit the number of messages that are collected and displayed.

Caution

The Status Message Viewer might not display data correctly when you execute it on the SMS Administrator Console running on Microsoft Windows XP Professional with no service pack applied and when your SMS site database or SMS Provider is on a server running Windows Server 2003. To ensure that the Status Message Viewer executes correctly, be sure to update the Windows XP Professional computer running the SMS Administrator Console with Service Pack 1 or higher.


The Status Message Viewer displays messages stamped with the local time and date. The General tab lets you specify different time zones if you want to see when a message was generated on a site or site system in a different geographic location.

Most status messages are generated based on generic text strings in which variables have been inserted to customize the detail to a specific component, time, and so on. For example, message ID 4611 for the SMS Component Status Summarizer contains the text:

SMS Component Status Summarizer reset the status of component %1, running on
computer %2, to OK.



This message always reads the same, except that the percent values are replaced with a specific SMS component value and server value. Displayed in the Status Message Viewer for SMS Site Component Manager on site server SQL1, this message would read:

SMS Component Status Summarizer reset the status of component "SMS Site
Component Manager", running on computer "SQL1", to OK.

If you clear the Resolve Description Strings and Resolve Property Strings check boxes in the General tab, the status messages would resolve more quickly but would leave empty quotation marks in the variable positions, rendering the messages not especially helpful to the SMS administrator.

The Columns Tab

The Columns tab of the Status Viewer Options dialog box, shown in Figure 11, enables you to customize the information displayed in the Status Message Viewer by adding columns to view thread and process IDs or by removing columns that might not be of interest.

Figure 11. The Columns tab of the Status Viewer Options dialog box.


The Export Tab

By default, status messages are deleted after seven days, but you can adjust this setting to suit your needs. Because some components can generate a multitude of messages, you might decide to delete messages more frequently to better manage database space. If you need to save or copy status messages to file for future reference and analysis or to print them out, the Export tab of the Status View Options dialog box, shown in Figure 12, provides options for doing so.

Figure 12. The Export tab of the Status Viewer Options dialog box.


The Exported Details frame lets you specify whether to include all possible data about a status message or only the data associated with the displayed columns. Under Information Delimiter, you can identify whether columns should be exported as tab delimited or comma delimited. This option is helpful if you expect to import this data into some other reporting or analysis tool such as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access. The Export Selection frame lets you specify whether to export only messages that you’ve selected in the viewer or all messages. By default, every time you choose to copy, print, or save a message, this Export tab is displayed, allowing you to modify the options before continuing. If you want the same options to apply to every copy, print, or save operation, clear the Force Selection Of Export Options For Each Export check box.

The Font Tab

The Font tab, shown in Figure 13, enables you to set the typeface, style, and size of the font that will be used to display messages in the Status Message Viewer. Be careful to choose something readable. A decorative font might look pretty at first, but if you’ll be scrutinizing messages for long periods of time, a poorly chosen font can give you a headache.

Figure 13. The Font tab of the Status Viewer Options dialog box.


Filter Options

Another neat feature of the Status Message Viewer is the set of filter options, which let you customize which messages are displayed in the Status Message Viewer. If you’ve used the filter options in the Windows Event Viewer, these filter options will be familiar. To set the filter options, choose Filter from the View menu to display the Filter Status Messages dialog box, as shown in Figure 14, or click the Filter icon from the tool bar (the one that looks like a funnel).

Figure 14. The Filter Status Messages dialog box.


You can filter messages based on any status message detail. Figure 14 shows a filter that displays error messages of any type (milestone, detail, and audit) for site S00 and generated by the component SMS Site Backup on site system SQL1. Click the Advanced button to display the Advanced Filter Options dialog box, where you can also specify filtering based on Process ID and Thread ID, message properties, and a range of time.

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