SharePoint Server 2007
This template assesses the overall health and performance of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Prerequisites: WMI access to the SharePoint server.
For more information, see “Requirements for Component Monitors and Templates that use WMI” in the Orion APM Administrator Guide.
Credentials: Windows Administrator on the SharePoint server.
Note: For monitoring a SharePoint server, you can also use “Internet Information Service (IIS) Services and Counters”, “Windows Server 2003-2008 Services and Counters” and “SQL Server 2005-2008 Performance” templates.
Monitored Components
Components without predetermined threshold values provide guidance such as "Use the lowest threshold possible" or "Use the highest threshold possible" to help you find a threshold appropriate for your application. For more information, see http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/2415.
Document Conversions Launcher
This service schedules and initiates document conversions. When SharePoint Foundation passes a document conversion request to the document conversion launcher service, the service must call the appropriate document converter.
Document Conversions Load Balancer
This service balances the document conversion requests from across the server farm. When it receives a converter request from SharePoint Foundation, the document conversion load balancer service must return a URI to the appropriate document conversion launcher service. SharePoint Foundation connects to the specified launcher via .NET remotely and requests the specified document be converted.
Single Sign-on
This component monitor provides the storage and mapping of credentials such as account names and passwords so that portal-based applications can retrieve information from third-party Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relations Management (CRM) systems.
SharePoint Server Search
This is a server farm-wide service that responds to query requests from front-end Web servers or crawl items.
ASP.NET: Requests/sec
This component monitors the number of requests executed per second. This represents the current throughput of the application. Under constant load, this number should remain within a certain range, barring other server work (such as garbage collection, cache cleanup thread, external server tools, and so on). This value should be as low as possible.
ASP.NET: Worker Processes Restarts
This component monitor returns the number of times a worker process has restarted. Restarts use a great deal of resources and therefore should be monitored closely. Restarts can be caused by various process settings, memory leaks, and access violations. It is recommended to closely monitor restarts to determine their cause, thus preventing them from occurring in the future. Any returned number above zero may indicate a problem.
Search Indexer: Queries
This component monitor returns the number of search queries.
Search Gatherer: Crawls In Progress
This component monitor returns the number of crawls in progress. Unless an administrator has manually initiated a crawl, the value should match the number of content sources with crawls scheduled.
Search Gatherer: Document Add Rate
This component monitor returns the number of items indexed per second, per content source.
Search Gatherer: Error Rate
This component monitor returns the number of index errors per second and should be as low as possible.
Search Gatherer: Incremental Crawls
This component monitor returns the number of incremental crawls in progress. An incremental crawl indexes only items that have changed.
Search Gatherer: Processed Documents Rate
This component monitor returns the number of documents processed per second.
Search Gatherer: Retries
This component monitor returns the total number of times document access has been retried.
Search Gatherer: Waiting Documents
This component monitor returns the number of documents waiting to be processed.
Search Gatherer: Documents Filtered Rate
This component monitor returns the number of documents filtered per second.
Search Gatherer: Filtering Threads
This component monitor returns the number of threads that have retrieved content and are being filtered. If the number is high, it may indicate that resources on the index server are being bottlenecked. This number should be as low as possible.
Search Gatherer: Threads Accessing Network
This component monitor returns the number of threads in the gatherer process that have sent requests to a remote data store and are either waiting for a response or processing a response. High values returned may indicate either a network bottleneck or that slow hosts may be connected to the index server.
Search Gatherer: Document Entries
This component monitor returns the number of document entries currently in memory.
Portions of this document were originally created by and are excerpted from the following sources:
Microsoft Corporation, “MSDN Library,” Copyright 
2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb931739(v=office.12)
