Search Service Monitor

Microsoft.Exchange2007.Mailbox.ServiceMonitor.msftesqlExchange (UnitMonitor)

This service quickly creates full-text indexes on content and properties of structured and semi-structured data to allow fast linguistic searches on this data.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This monitor uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to check the status of the Search service and generates an alert when the service is set to start automatically and is not running.

Note that an alert is not generated when the service is disabled and a healthy state will be shown.

Causes

A service can stop for many reasons, including:

Resolutions

You can attempt to restart the service using the following link:

Start Search service

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Exchange2007.ServerRole.Mailbox
Parent MonitorMicrosoft.Exchange2007.Mailbox.AggregateMonitor.CoreServices
CategoryAvailabilityHealth
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityMatchMonitorHealth
Alert PriorityNormal
Alert Auto ResolveTrue
Monitor TypeMicrosoft.Windows.CheckNTServiceStateMonitorType
RemotableTrue
AccessibilityPublic
Alert Message
Search Service Stopped
The Search Service on Exchange server {0} has stopped running
RunAsDefault

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.Exchange2007.Mailbox.ServiceMonitor.msftesqlExchange" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="onEssentialMonitoring" Target="ExLibrary!Microsoft.Exchange2007.ServerRole.Mailbox" ParentMonitorID="Microsoft.Exchange2007.Mailbox.AggregateMonitor.CoreServices" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.CheckNTServiceStateMonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="true">
<Category>AvailabilityHealth</Category>
<AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.Exchange2007.Mailbox.ServiceMonitor.msftesqlExchange.AlertMessage">
<AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>
<AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>
<AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>
<AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>
<AlertParameters>
<AlertParameter1>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</AlertParameter1>
</AlertParameters>
</AlertSettings>
<OperationalStates>
<OperationalState ID="Running" MonitorTypeStateID="Running" HealthState="Success"/>
<OperationalState ID="NotRunning" MonitorTypeStateID="NotRunning" HealthState="Error"/>
</OperationalStates>
<Configuration>
<ComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>
<ServiceName>msftesql-Exchange</ServiceName>
<CheckStartupType>false</CheckStartupType>
</Configuration>
</UnitMonitor>