Hi – I am just working on trying to tweak and understand the alerts and health views of the SharePoint 2013 MP. I have it installed successfully (thanks to this forum and blogs – not the guide!) and I am now monitoring a farm containing 4 servers and a SQL server. My question concerns understanding and overriding the alerts and how this will affect the diagram view of the farm.
As soon as I got the MP installed in test I got the following Critical alert for instance –
SharePoint: SPHA Configuration Rule Monitor Detects Failure
(the info for this – “Missing server side dependencies”)
Our SP admin just said he was not interested in that and just make it information as its not relevant for us. I was going to just override the object “Missing server side dependencies” however out of interest I wanted to look at what else I could override so choose for a specific object of the rule and saw all these potential alerts -
What I am trying to understand is how this monitor is working? It’s almost an all-encompassing monitor but I don’t understand where it’s actually getting the health from? I was thinking this monitor was made up of individual monitors (for all of the above potential issue) that then roll up or something but can’t find any reference to any of these listed. Is SharePoint somehow providing the monitor results?
Final question – as a test I just did an override to information for the alert. However this did not affect the overall health of SharePoint in the other views such as the diagram view. Should I be applying the override at a lower level (which would then roll up into the alert)?
Thanks for any help – I think any bit of information will help me understand this better.