Policies

The Always On availability groups system policies are used by the Always On Dashboard to

provide information on the availability group health to the user. They are very useful for initial

troubleshooting of an availability group’s operational issues. These policies can be extended

and used to customize the Always On Dashboard, or run instantly to report the desired health

information.

There are 14 system policies for availability groups. For detailed information on each policy, see

Always On policies for operational issues with Always On Availability Groups (SQL Server).

To view or run the availability groups system policies in SQL Server Management Studio

(SSMS), do the following:

1. In the

, expand

,

,

, and then.

2. Right-click one of the policies and click. If you want to evaluate the policy you

selected, you are done. You can click

in the

box to see the details of

the evaluation results.

3. To view all the availability groups system policies, in the

pane, click.

The Always On health model, part 2: Extending the health model.