How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

MoSBS — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:41:30 GMT

Dell PE2900 (1.6G) 2.00GB RAM; SBS 2003 SP1, NAV 10.1.

I tried the Driver clean up tool, with no luck, still need a fix.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

bradley — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:40:12 GMT

Run the clean up report task one at a time. When they haven't cleaned out is when they are not reporting.

It may appear to have run, but it really didn't complete like it should.

Try it again, but this time only one clean up task at a time.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

1nd_dot_nl — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:31:00 GMT

I run one SBS2003R2 server on a Dell box w 2 gb of RAM, no A/V and have "the page could not be displayed" both in console and morning mails. Trouble started soon but not directly after installing WSUS3. I had WSUS3 clean its database but still no monitoring.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Chris — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:12:33 GMT

Have recently taken on a site experiencing this problem - no reports and none available on server - permanent.

Recent Dell box; SBS2003 Std with SP1; WSUS2; AVG 7.5 server, email server and clients; Spampal.

Currently checking out this sysem as I say only taken on this week, WSUS had been set to manual and no updates to server or clients for some time.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Bill Dunn — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:49:36 GMT

HP ML110G2, 3.0 gig, 2 gig ram, SBS2K3 R2 with WSUS 2. Reporting became intermittent about 2 weeks ago, and has totally failed about 3 days ago. KB948110 attempted but failed to install. WSUS works fine as does Sharepoint internal web site.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

bradley — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:34:15 GMT

Joseph can you ping me directly please at susan-at-msmvps.com?

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Joseph — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:40:26 GMT

I look after around 5 or 6 of these servers and this issue is permanent on about 3. It is really pissing me off.

This is the error I'm getting on Server 1:

Server Status Report:

URL: localhost/.../perf.aspx

Error Message: This is an unexpected token. The expected token is 'NAME'. Line 1, position 2.

Stack Trace: at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.ClassFactory.CallStaticMethod(Type type, String methodName, Object[] args)

at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.BaseApi.Subscription.GetSynchronizationHistory(DateTime fromDate, DateTime toDate)

at Microsoft.UpdateServices.Internal.BaseApi.Subscription.GetLastSynchronizationInfo()

at Microsoft.SBS.UpdateServices.DataProvider.GetSyncStatus()

at Microsoft.SBS.UpdateServices.StatusPage.Utility.IsSyncScheduled(DataProvider dp)

at Microsoft.SBS.UpdateServices.StatusPage.Utility.GetStatusItems()

at usage.frmPerf.PopulateStatusItems()

at usage.frmPerf.renderReportWorker()

at usage.frmPerf.renderReport()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at go.microsoft.com/.../events.asp.

I have uininstalled WSUS 3.0 SP1 and reinstalled and added 127.0.0.1 to the default website. I can't figure out what the problem iis. Is someone able to help me out?

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Les Connor — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:42:28 GMT

Run the database cleanup wizard in WSUS v3. If you have WSUS v2, you'll need to enter at the command line, as there's no wizard.

www.wsuswiki.com/MowingtheGrass

Note: I haven't used the v2 cleanup, so I don't know if/how it works, but in all cases the v3 database cleanup has resolved the problem.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Graeme Smith — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:55:51 GMT

30% of our managed SBS's are doing this. (Pool of 24 from my office) WUS 3.0 is definitely implicated. Some servers have WUS "stutter" as the service stops and starts again. Forcing the service stopped doesn't get the monitoring back.

This is a PIA. :-)

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Tim - Granite Computer Solutions Ltd — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:02:53 GMT

We have the same issues, but only happening on 1 in 10 of the sbs servers we look after and is probably WSUS 3.0.

Before reading the latest posts and performing them, we removed and reinstalled the sbs monitoring feature using add/remove - Windows SBS 2003 setup wizard. This seams to have solved the problem but only 2 hours have passed since, so fingers crossed!

I have posted below the procedure we performed if it helps anyone:

stop the sbsmonitoring service.

run sbs setup in maintenance mode, set monitoring to remove.

complete wizard,

enter regedit - hklm\software\microsoft\microsoft sql server\

rename SBSMONITORING key to _SBSMONITORING (or something different)

re-run sbs setup in maintenance mode and set monitoring to install.

we did receive an error but this was because we forgot to stop monitoring service but once we stopped that, we just received an error about reinstalling msde sp4. we just ok'd that and setup completed. – may be something else for the fix list!

after clicking finish, server wanted to reboot - (no need as you can do the following) or reboot if you prefer.

open taskmgr, end process - "SETUP" should be about 42,000k mem usage.

change the sbsmonitoring service to automatic, then start it.

rerun sbs monitoring setup via console, choose reinstall.

force a collect data by running "Collect Server Performance Data" in scheduled tasks, wait for the task to stop, then run the report by running "Small Business Server - Server Status Report - Server Performance Report". Again, wait for that to finish.

return to sbs console, refresh and as long as the above task has finished it should work and not display the "page cannot be displayed" error.

hope this helps and doesn’t make matters worse for you all!

il keep you posted, have a few client servers to apply that to now!

wish my luck!

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

NumloQ — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:22:54 GMT

Keep in mind not to configure WSUS from within WSUS just use SBS Server Configuration console. I replaced my database (did not test without this)

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

NumloQ — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:53:28 GMT

Reinstall WSUS 3.0 SP1

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

NumloQ — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:51:55 GMT

Just deinstall and reinstall WSUS 3.0 SP1 was my resolution to this problem on a SBS 2003R2 box. Only 1 out of 10 SBS 2K3 servers got this problem we have.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Joshua B — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:14:52 GMT

I have had that message on an SBS 2003 SP1 machine a year or 2 ago. I cannot remember exactly what I did to fix it, but it was 1 specific setting somewhere. I remember being amazed that it would cause that type of error. Pretty sure it has something to do with the Health Monitor software and trying to include specific information in the report...

If I remember I will post back.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Bill Shultz — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:58:12 GMT

I have four servers affected. All are Dell PowerEdge 1800 servers with 2 Xeon hyperthreaded processors. Three servers have 2 GB memory and one has 4 GB memory. All four have SATA RAID 5 data arrays.

All four servers run AVG Antivirus. I have not installed the SQL patches on any servers yet. Note that I have an HP server running AVG Antivirus and it is fine. I also have other non-Dell servers running other antivirus products that are running fine. The unaffected servers are all single CPU machines.

All four servers were affected on July 14 (Bastille Day). I contacted the Partner SBSC Newgroup for assistance and they just told me the Monitoring database was corrupted and I should uninstall then reinstall Monitoring. I did as they suggested on my server and the output order of the monitoring results came out differently than unaffected servers. I'm still trying to sort that one out.

Hope this helps.

Bill Shultz

Acapella Technologies

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Steven Parkinson — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:44:37 GMT

Well, as I suspected the report only worked one time from my previous post and is now back to not working.

I have also built up a new sbs 2003 R2 in Hyper-V using the R2 DVD media and have patched to completion and it also now exhibts the non-working monitoring issue, fun, fun, fun.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Steven Parkinson — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:33:13 GMT

@Chris Mckinney

Chris, I think you may be on to something here..

I see that same error (0x80131904) on both problematic servers in the scheduled tasks fro the auto approval task. I poked around in WSUS and went thru all the settings to verify (comparing to a known working server), there was nothing incorrect but I clicked ok on all dialogs as I went thru the settings. then the next morning I got the monitoring report! I will see how long this lasts as I have not been able to get a report from this server in 3 weeks solid until now. The reports section on the server also works correctly. I will look art my other server tonight and see if the same "fixes" it.

The only hits I see on this error code all seem to relate to SQL..

I am still getting Event ID 10032 - "The server is failing to download some updates." in the application log as well as this error Eevent ID 364 regarding the IMF filter download, yet wsus seems to be working.

Content file download failed. Reason: The requested URL does not exist on the server.

Source File: /msdownload/update/software/uprl/2008/07/imf-kb907747-2008.07.10-x86_d85479ccb063200c633ae7e62eb56db30e02a5e2.exe Destination File: d:\WSUS\WsusContent\E2\D85479CCB063200C633AE7E62EB56DB30E02A5E2.exe.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Fred Gregory — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:58:55 GMT

I have 4 SBS 2003 R2 STD sites that exhibit the problem. It occured Very occasionally before the SQL patches. Now with 2 of the sites it will happen about once a week. (one of them this morning). The other 2 rarely produce a useable report. Sometimes I can view it from the Server Management console, but it takes about 10 min to produce. The 2 most affected (a) PE1430, Xeon 3.0 GHz, 1GB ram, Symantec AV 10.2, WSUS 3sp1 (b) PE440 P4 D3.0 2GB ram, Trend CSM 3.6, WSUS 2 sp1. I have 1 SBS 2003 SP1 STD site without WSUS that has never had the problem.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Ray Bell — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:07:46 GMT

I am having the same problem with 3 sites that are running R2 standard with wsus enabled. With one of the sites i get a report about once a week but with the others i didn't get a report since 15th July.

re: How many of you have SBS Monitoring reports that as of lately have gotten a little funky?

Bruno Bracquiné — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:34:44 GMT

Same here: 19 monitored boxes, 4 having problems with sbsmonitoring. Could be a coincidence, but these are all running R2 standard with wsus enabled. Not 100% sure this is related, but Wsus gets to be slightly annoying, wouldn't you agree?