One thing we have seen when using Windows Service Monitors that were generated using the wizard is after 2 weeks the performance issue alerts will start firing off. By default the performance monitors are setup to learn your service's performance characteristics, and then setup thresholds based on that. As a result alerts start firing off whenever your service is used.

If you deleted and recreated the monitor you will probably see these alerts startup again in 2 weeks. You either need to override the performance thresholds for these monitors or remove them.

From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Holman
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:17 AM
To: msmom@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: [msmom] RE: False positives for Windows Service Monitors

What is a “false positive”?  You mean you get an alert saying a service is “not running”, and health explorer also shows this state change history, however – the service was truly never down?

I have not seen that.

We have recently seen a lot of False positives for Windows Service Monitors. Has anyone else seen a lot of false positives for Windows Service Monitors? Any fix for these? It seems before after deleting the monitor and recreating it has helped alleviate the issue.

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David Strebel

Systems Administrator

Kellogg Information Systems

Kellogg School of Management

847-467-7803

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