Local Health Service Availability - Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthServiceWatcher.HealthServiceAvailabilityState (DependencyMonitor)

Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthServiceWatcher.HealthServiceAvailabilityState (DependencyMonitor)

This rolls up the availability state of the Health service that this Health Service Watcher object is monitoring.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Each Health Service in the Management Group has a corresponding Heath Service Watcher. The Health Service Watcher object monitors, or watches, the state of the remote Health Service from the perspective of the Root Management Server.

This dependency monitor rolls up the availability health of the Health Service it is monitoring. This gives you a unified view of the health of a Health Service:

The Health Model of the Health Service monitors itself locally on the target computer.
The Health Model of the Health Service Watcher monitors heartbeats from the Health Service.

Element properties:

Target	Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthServiceWatcher
Parent Monitor	System.Health.AvailabilityState
Algorithm	WorstOf
Source Monitor	System.Health.AvailabilityState
Relationship	Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthServiceWatcherMonitorsHealthService
Category	StateCollection
Enabled	True
Alert Generate	False
Alert Auto Resolve	False
Remotable	True
Accessibility	Public

Source Code:

<DependencyMonitor ID="Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthServiceWatcher.HealthServiceAvailabilityState" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="SCLibrary!Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthServiceWatcher" ParentMonitorID="Health!System.Health.AvailabilityState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" RelationshipType="SCLibrary!Microsoft.SystemCenter.HealthServiceWatcherMonitorsHealthService" MemberMonitor="Health!System.Health.AvailabilityState"> <Category>StateCollection</Category> <Algorithm>WorstOf</Algorithm> <MemberUnAvailable>Error</MemberUnAvailable> </DependencyMonitor>