Chapter 5 -- Analysis and Troubleshooting Tools

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Chapter 5

In the preceding chapters, we've viewed log files and status messages as a way of interpreting and troubleshooting process flows and component activity in your Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) 2.0 site. In this chapter, we'll spend a little more time exploring the uses of these tools, and we'll look at some additional tools that will help you maintain your site. In particular, you'll learn how to view status messages, use status summarizers, filter status messages, report status to other SMS components, and use queries to customize the status messages displayed. You'll also learn how to use SMS Service Manager to start, stop, and monitor the status of the components as well as to enable logging, and how to use the SMS Trace utility to view log files.