The Windows SharePoint Services Tracing service State

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

The Windows SharePoint Services Tracing (SPTrace) service is used by Windows SharePoint Services to manage trace output of the call stack. When trace logging is enabled, administrators can specify the path that is used to store the trace logs.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This alert indicates that the SPTrace service is not running.

Causes

Possible causes include:

The SPTrace 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 Tracing (SPTrace) 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 SPTrace service, contact your system administrator.

Element properties:

Target

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

Parent Monitor

Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.Tracing

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 Tracing service State

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

RunAs

Default

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.The_Windows_SharePoint_Services_Tracing_service_State.ServiceHealth" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="onEssentialMonitoring" Target="Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.WSS.Server" ParentMonitorID="Microsoft.Windows.SharePoint.Services.3.0.Tracing" 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_Tracing_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>SPTrace</ServiceName>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>