Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 : Understanding Status Summarizers (part 2) - Configuring Status Summarizers - Component Status Summarizer

Right-click Component Status Summarizer in the Status Summarizers node and choose Properties from the context menu to display the Component Status Summarizer Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4. The General tab of the Component Status Summarizer Properties dialog box.

Notice that the Enable Status Summarization and Replicate To Parent Site options are selected by default. If you want to disable component status summarization, clear the option Enable Status Summarization. If you do so, however, the status message system won’t be of much help to you as you’ll no longer be tracking the activity of SMS components.

If you don’t want to send status information to administrators in a parent site, clear the option Replicate To Parent Site. You might choose to do so if all site troubleshooting occurs at your site or if your parent site administrators don’t want to receive status information from your site, or both. If you’re replicating status messages to a parent site, you can set the replication priority for those messages. The default, as you see in Figure 4, is Medium. You might choose Low as a replication priority if you’ve set address options limiting the priority of intersite communications and you want to control when status messages are sent to the parent. This dialog box also gives you another place to modify the display interval, here called the threshold period.

Select the Thresholds tab to configure summary thresholds for each component, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5. The Thresholds tab of the Component Status Summarizer Properties dialog box.

Select the Message Type you want to set the threshold for—Informational, Warning, or Error—from the drop-down list and then double-click the component whose thresholds you want to change to display the Status Threshold Properties dialog box.

The default status message thresholds differ for each message type. Figure 6 shows the default settings for informational status messages for the SMS Hierarchy Manager.

Figure 6. The default status message thresholds for informational status messages.

Figure 7 shows the default settings for warning status messages.

Figure 7. The default status message thresholds for warning status messages.

Figure 8 shows the default settings for error status messages.

Figure 8. The default status message thresholds for error status messages.

Specify the number of warning and error messages that need to be generated (the threshold) before the Component Status Summarizer changes the summary status from OK to Warning or to Critical.

Choose OK to close the Status Threshold Properties dialog box and then choose OK in the Component Status Summarizer Properties dialog box to save your modifications.