2012 Health Service handle Count Threshold

Question

I only have one server at present (a beefy one) for testing SCOM 2012 and with just 10 servers being monitored and only the AD, SQL, and Task Scheduler MP's installed, already the RMS is complaining that the Threshold for the
Health Service Handle Count is over the top.
Is this a case of simply adjusting the threshold from 6000 to a higher number?
If so, what is the magic number pls?
Thx very much,
John Bradshaw

Answer 1

Based on my knowledge the Healthservice handle count will go high when there is a huge alert flow mainly where there is lot of agents and when they throw lot of alerts.
In our Environment of SCOM 2007 R2 we monitor Exchange 2010 and that is a quiet noisy MP.
So there may be some agent which is throwing some collection / alerting data for which this count will go high.
Request you guys to run the below SQL Query on the Ops DB to check which are those noisy alerts
Most common events by event number and event publishername: (This
gives us the event publisher name to help see what is raising these events)
SELECT top 50 Number, Publishername, COUNT(*) AS TotalEvents
FROM EventAllView
GROUP BY Number, Publishername
ORDER BY TotalEvents DESC
and
Computers generating the most events: (This
shows us which computers create the most event traffic and use the most database space)
SELECT top 50 LoggingComputer, COUNT(*) AS TotalEvents
FROM EventallView
GROUP BY LoggingComputer
ORDER BY TotalEvents DESC
refer: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/908db57b-4ed4-4b8e-8513-fd62965332ba/health-service-handle-count-threshold
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