SBS 2008 Monitoring Disk Usage

I have a new Dell Server with four SATA drives in RAID 10 configuraiton. I
noticed that the server often seems very sluggish when I remote in even
though we are barely scratching the surface of the processor and memory.

I cranked up the Performance Monitor and found that the monitoring system
was saturating my disk accessing the SBSMonitoring database.

Is this normal?

Try this if you haven't already:

981939 The Windows SBS Console of Windows Small Business Server 2008 may
crash, display "Not Available" for Other Alerts, or require a long time to
display the Security and Other Alerts statuses
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-US;981939

It seems to help reduce the disk usage by SBS Monitoring.

--
Chris Puckett

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



"Jim Clark" <> wrote in message
news:21204D7C-624E-4823-8C73-...
> I have a new Dell Server with four SATA drives in RAID 10 configuraiton.
> I
> noticed that the server often seems very sluggish when I remote in even
> though we are barely scratching the surface of the processor and memory.
>
> I cranked up the Performance Monitor and found that the monitoring system
> was saturating my disk accessing the SBSMonitoring database.
>
> Is this normal?

Thank you Chris, this seems to have fixed my issue. After running the script
I was able to shrink the 2 GB database down to less than 500 MB.

"Chris Puckett [MSFT]" wrote:

> Try this if you haven't already:
>
> 981939 The Windows SBS Console of Windows Small Business Server 2008 may
> crash, display "Not Available" for Other Alerts, or require a long time to
> display the Security and Other Alerts statuses
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-US;981939
>
> It seems to help reduce the disk usage by SBS Monitoring.
>
> --
> Chris Puckett
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
>
>
> "Jim Clark" <> wrote in message
> news:21204D7C-624E-4823-8C73-...
> > I have a new Dell Server with four SATA drives in RAID 10 configuraiton.
> > I
> > noticed that the server often seems very sluggish when I remote in even
> > though we are barely scratching the surface of the processor and memory.
> >
> > I cranked up the Performance Monitor and found that the monitoring system
> > was saturating my disk accessing the SBSMonitoring database.
> >
> > Is this normal?
>
> .
>