Performance collection rules only during certain hour of the day?

[Brian]

I've been searching for a way to do this in SCOM, but haven't found it yet.
:) I'm trying to collect the following counters from our Exchange 2003
servers in preperation to design our Exchange 2007 mailbox server disk
layout, but I only want them to collect from 6am-6pm every 15 seconds over a
period of one work week.

Logical Disk\Disk Reads/sec
Logical Disk\Disk Writes/sec
Logical Disk\Disk Transfers/sec
\Memory\Available MBytes
\Memory\Pages/sec
\MSExchangeIS\Active User Count
\MSExchangeIS\RPC Operations/sec
\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time

The first 3 are going to only for be the database & log drives.

Is there a way to configure a performance collection rule to collect all of
those only during 6am-6pm and also display them in the same view? If I have
to schedule a powershell script to enable/disable a rule that's fine, I'll
schedule a task to do so.

Thank you in advance!

[Anders Bengtsson [MVP]]

Hello Brian,

You can configure a monitor or a rule to run only during busniess hours,
take a look at http://www.systemcenterforum.org/news/how-to-run-a-monitor-during-business-hours-in-operations-manager-2007-faq/

You could also collect all the data and then in the report specify busniess
hours.


Anders Bengtsson
Microsoft MVP - System Center Operations Manager
www.contoso.se

Post by Brian
I've been searching for a way to do this in SCOM, but haven't found it
yet. :) I'm trying to collect the following counters from our Exchange
2003 servers in preperation to design our Exchange 2007 mailbox server
disk layout, but I only want them to collect from 6am-6pm every 15
seconds over a period of one work week.
Logical Disk\Disk Reads/sec
Logical Disk\Disk Writes/sec
Logical Disk\Disk Transfers/sec
\Memory\Available MBytes
\Memory\Pages/sec
\MSExchangeIS\Active User Count
\MSExchangeIS\RPC Operations/sec
\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time
The first 3 are going to only for be the database & log drives.
Is there a way to configure a performance collection rule to collect
all of those only during 6am-6pm and also display them in the same
view? If I have to schedule a powershell script to enable/disable a
rule that's fine, I'll schedule a task to do so.
Thank you in advance!

[Brian]

Thank you, Anders, I'll give that a shot! I didn't want to pollute the DB
with 24 hours of data if I didn't have to. :)

Post by Anders Bengtsson [MVP]
Hello Brian,
You can configure a monitor or a rule to run only during busniess hours,
take a look at
http://www.systemcenterforum.org/news/how-to-run-a-monitor-during-business-hours-in-operations-manager-2007-faq/
You could also collect all the data and then in the report specify
busniess hours.
Anders Bengtsson
Microsoft MVP - System Center Operations Manager
www.contoso.se

Post by Brian
I've been searching for a way to do this in SCOM, but haven't found it
yet. :) I'm trying to collect the following counters from our Exchange
2003 servers in preperation to design our Exchange 2007 mailbox server
disk layout, but I only want them to collect from 6am-6pm every 15
seconds over a period of one work week.
Logical Disk\Disk Reads/sec
Logical Disk\Disk Writes/sec
Logical Disk\Disk Transfers/sec
\Memory\Available MBytes
\Memory\Pages/sec
\MSExchangeIS\Active User Count
\MSExchangeIS\RPC Operations/sec
\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time
The first 3 are going to only for be the database & log drives.
Is there a way to configure a performance collection rule to collect
all of those only during 6am-6pm and also display them in the same
view? If I have to schedule a powershell script to enable/disable a
rule that's fine, I'll schedule a task to do so.
Thank you in advance!