Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Server monitoring

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When you install the Monitoring Agent for Microsoft SharePoint Server, the agent is automatically configured and started with the default configuration settings. Use the silent response file to modify the default configuration settings.

Before you begin

Ensure that you complete the following tasks:

  • Ensure that the user, who connects to the Microsoft SharePoint Server environment or application, has administrator privileges. Use an existing user with administrator privileges, or create a new user. Assign administrator privileges to the new user by adding the new user to the Administrators group.
    Remember: To configure the Microsoft SharePoint Server agent, you can use a local or a domain user provided that the user has administrator privileges.
  • Edit the response file and modify the default configuration parameters.
    The response file contains the following parameters:
    KQP_DB_User
    The user ID of the database.
    KQP_DB_Password
    The password of the database.

Review hardware and software prerequisites. For the up-to-date system requirement information, see the Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) for the Microsoft SharePoint Server agent.

The product version and the agent version often differ. The directions here are for the most current release of this agent. For information about how to check the version of an agent in your environment, see Agent version. To access the documentation for earlier agent releases, see the following table:
Table 1. Agent versions and documentation
Microsoft SharePoint Server agent version Documentation
06.31.09.00, 06.31.10.00 IBM Cloud Application Performance Management
06.31.09.00 IBM Performance Management 8.1.3
Note: The link opens an on-premises Knowledge Center topic.
06.31.07.00 IBM Performance Management 8.1.2
Note: The link opens an on-premises Knowledge Center topic.

Procedure

To configure the Microsoft SharePoint Server agent, complete the following steps:

  1. Open the command prompt.
  2. Change the path to the directory that contains the ms_sharepoint_server-agent.bat file.
  3. Enter the following command: ms_sharepoint_server-agent.bat config absolute path to the response file
  4. If the agent is in the stopped state, start the agent.

What to do next

After you configure the agent, you can change the user account from the local user to the domain user. For steps to change the user account, see Changing the user account.