Recommended Practices for MOM Reporting

You will find these practices helpful in using MOM Reporting to best advantage.

Install MOM Reporting on a separate computer
Install MOM Reporting on a computer other than the database computer. This prevents MOM Reporting-related memory and CPU usage from having a negative impact on Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 (MOM) database performance. When you do this, report generation times may increase due to network latency, but the impact on the MOM database and central computer performance is reduced.

Select specific report criteria
Reduce the size of the result set queried for reporting by:

• avoiding the All option
• selecting a short date range
• selecting specific servers, services and computer groups

Avoid scheduling regular reports that require you to keep intensive auditing enabled
Generate reports that require you to enable intensive auditing only when needed, to track specific problems or monitor usage. Avoid scheduling these reports regularly:

• MOM Configuration Change reports need DAS auditing enabled
• IIS Operations reports need IIS logging enabled

Avoid scheduling regular reports that collect stored event parameters
Generate reports that collect stored event parameters as needed, to track specific problems or monitor usage. Avoid scheduling these reports regularly. Disable the event parameter collection when these reports are not needed:

• RAS report
• IIS Events Selected by IP Address report

Schedule report generation
MOM Reporting allows you to schedule report generation for reports that are used on a regular basis. Follow these guidelines for scheduling report generation:

• Select specific reports that are useful for your operations and monitoring setup. Avoid selecting all reports in a category.
• Run scheduled reports at non-peak hours.
• Avoid generating multiple reports simultaneously. Create one batch file for all scheduled reports and schedule that batch file instead, of creating multiple batch files and scheduling them separately. This prevents you from inadvertently scheduling different batch files simultaneously.
• Disable scheduling when reports are not needed.
• The same data is sometimes available in multiple reports with different presentations. Instead of generating both reports, select the presentation that best suits your needs. For instance:
• • Top 100 Mailboxes report is available by Message Count and by Size
  • Many capacity planning reports are available By Day and By Peak Hours
  • Event log summary is available as a text summary or as a trend graph

  Use performance graphs
  For tracking specific performance counters for a short period of duration, use the performance graphs available on the MOM Administrator Console or Web Console.

  Use views for monitoring events
  To monitor events matching specific criteria, use custom event views in the MOM Administrator Console or the Web Console.

  Disable reporting rules not being used
  Disable reporting rules that are not being used to reduce data collection.