Chapter 16. Monitoring, Logging, and Availability

Central to the daily life of a SharePoint administrator is the ability to maintain the integrity, reliability, and availability of the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment. Therefore, knowing what the servers that make up the SharePoint farm are doing at any given time, and how they are doing it, is really important. This chapter describes how to use the SharePoint Server 2010 out-of-the-box diagnostic capabilities and details several Microsoft Windows Server tools that can be used to monitor the health of the server or servers and the farm.

Windows Server 2008

At the foundation of any SharePoint Server 2010 environment is the Windows ...

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