Windows Client Health

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Over time Windows devices can develop performance problems related to device or service availability. This policy verifies the available storage capacity on devices, notifies of application crashes, monitors WMI health and service function and also checks the behavior of core Windows services.
This policy is intended for deployment to Windows devices only.

Scenario

A network administrator uses Guaranteed State to monitor the health of client devices across the enterprise. The Windows Client Health Policy will:
Manage the Windows devices and service availability performance problems.
Safeguard disk space integrity, ensuring sufficient storage capacity.
Ensure optimum performance of the Configuration Manager client and that WMI is active and integrated.

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1E-Explorer-WindowsClientHealth-ApplicationCrashes

INSTRUCTION

Description

List application crashes

Readable Payload

What applications have crashed?

1E-Explorer-WindowsClientHealth-ApplicationCrashesFiltered

INSTRUCTION

Description

List application crashes for a specific application

Readable Payload

What crashes has %ApplicationName% suffered?

Windows Client Health

POLICY

The Windows Client Health policy ensures that the health of the Windows operating system is compliant with a reference baseline

Check application crash count (Rule)

Check that an application has not crashed excessively.

ProcessCrash (Trigger)

On crash of process "%executable%"

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-ApplicationCrashes (Check)

Check application %ApplicationName% has not suffered more than %MaxCrashCount% crashes in the last %Days% days

Check free disk space (Rule)

Check that the system disk has at least 5 Gb of free space.

WindowsRegistryChange (Trigger)

On change of registry values in "%hive%%subkey%" (include subkeys=%includeSubkeys%)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-SystemDriveFreeSpace (Check)

Check that system drive has at least %thresholdGb% Gb of free space

Check WMI repository health (Rule)

Check that the WMI repository is in a healthy state.

IntervalHours (Trigger)

Every %intervalHours% hours

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-WmiBasicHealth (Check)

Check that Windows WMI repository is consistent and can process basic query

Ensure WMI service is running (Rule)

Ensure that the WMI service is running.

ServiceStatusChange (Trigger)

On change of running state of the "%serviceName%" service

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Fix-StartWMIService (Fix)

Start the WMI service

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Status: Verified
Author: 1E Product Pack Team
Category: Performance, Security, System Performance, Windows Components
Tags: boot operating system operations Performance process startup
Added: 11 months ago
Last Updated: 4 months ago
Downloads: 59
Compatibility: Platform - v5.2, v5.1, v5.0
Os Supported - Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1, 7

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Windows Client Health

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Components

1E-Explorer-WindowsClientHealth-ApplicationCrashes

Description

Readable Payload

1E-Explorer-WindowsClientHealth-ApplicationCrashesFiltered

Description

Readable Payload

1E-Explorer-WindowsClientHealth-GetLogFileContent

Description

Readable Payload

1E-Explorer-WindowsClientHealth-StartWMIService

Description

Readable Payload

Windows Client Health

Check application crash count (Rule)

ProcessCrash (Trigger)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-ApplicationCrashes (Check)

Check free disk space (Rule)

WindowsRegistryChange (Trigger)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-SystemDriveFreeSpace (Check)

Check WMI repository health (Rule)

IntervalHours (Trigger)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Check-WmiBasicHealth (Check)

Ensure WMI service is running (Rule)

ServiceStatusChange (Trigger)

1E-GuaranteedState-WindowsClientHealth-Fix-StartWMIService (Fix)

Known Issues / Additional Notes

Value Score

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