Hi, Just wanted to know the difference between reset health and recalculate health state for a service monitor. Recalulate will again check the service whether running or not. Will reset health check the service again or just reset the state to healthy regardless of the service healthy or not? If an active alert is closed even if the service is not running will the monitor generate a new alert automatically or we have to recalculate health manually? Does the time mentioned on the discovery means the actual health recalculation time or there is some different time setting for recalculating health state? Adhok

Hi, please take a look at this post http://blogs.msdn.com/mariussutara/archive/2008/01/09/video-reset-and-recalculate-health-state.aspxAnders Bengtsson | Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager | http://www.contoso.se

The URL is going onto some other page. Not able to view that video. Adhok

Found this event in the opsmgr log. Is it related to monitor state change? Event Type: Information Event Source: HealthService Event Category: Health Service Event ID: 5500 Date: 12/05/2010 Time: 17:24:07 User: N/A Computer: Description: Frequent state change requests caused the incoming state change request to be dropped due to it being older than the currently recorded state change for this monitor. This could also be due to an invalid configuration for this monitor. Affected monitor: Microsoft.SystemCenter.NTService.ServiceStateMonitor Instance: Class name Instance ID: 6CB07E84-CDFF-5AA1-A45D-5B4724EFDBCE Management Group: MG Name Request generated time: 2010-05-12T17:24:07.6852895+01:00 Requested state: Success Recorded time: 2010-05-12T17:24:07.8727884+01:00 Recorded state Success For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

Hi, Please also try the following method: Flushing the Health Service and State and Cache. http://systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/26999/Default.aspx Please Note: Since the website is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information. In the webpage, it said deleting all files in C:\Program Files\System Center Operations Manager 2007\Health Service State\Health Service Store. I think we need to backup them, simply, copy all of them to a new folder and then do the step. This should be safer. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT

Thanks for this pointer Nicholas, i had the error "Frequent state change requests caused the incoming state change request to be dropped due to it being older than the currently recorded state change for this monitor" on one of our boxes, a restart of the service didnt fix it so completed the steps you linked to and it seems to have worked. CheersStew