The Windows SharePoint Services Timer service State

Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.The_Windows_SharePoint_Services_Timer_service_State.ServiceHealth (UnitMonitor)

The Windows SharePoint Services Timer (SPTimer) service is used by Windows SharePoint Services to manage schedule jobs in the system. Timer will handle any schedule process and execute it without user interaction, examples of schedule jobs are Automatic Site Deletion, Search Crawling, Recycle Bin cleanup, Usage analysis.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This alert indicates that the SPTimer service is not running.

Causes

Possible causes include:

The SPTimer service was stopped by the administrator.
The Startup Type of the service was set to “Manual” and the computer was restarted.

Resolutions

Make sure that the Windows SharePoint Services Timer (SPTimer) service on the computer that is specified in the Windows NT Event log is running.
Also, make sure that the Startup Type is set to “Automatic” to prevent this problem from recurring.
If you cannot start the SPTimer service, contact your system administrator.

Element properties:

Target

Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.WSS.Server

Parent Monitor

Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.Timer

Category

StateCollection

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

Error

Alert Priority

Normal

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Monitor Type

Microsoft.Windows.CheckNTServiceStateMonitorType

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

The Windows SharePoint Services Timer service State

The Windows SharePoint Services Timer service on the computer {0} is not running.

RunAs

Default

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.The_Windows_SharePoint_Services_Timer_service_State.ServiceHealth" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="onEssentialMonitoring" Target="Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.WSS.Server" ParentMonitorID="Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.Timer" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="MSWL!Microsoft.Windows.CheckNTServiceStateMonitorType" ConfirmDelivery="false">

  <Category>StateCollection</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.The_Windows_SharePoint_Services_Timer_service_State.ServiceHealth.StringResource">

    <AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>Error</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Target/Host/Property[Type="MSWL!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState ID="ServiceHealthy" MonitorTypeStateID="Running" HealthState="Success"/>

    <OperationalState ID="ServiceNotHealthy" MonitorTypeStateID="NotRunning" HealthState="Error"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <ComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="MSWL!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>

    <ServiceName>SPTimerV3</ServiceName>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>