What Components are Examined in a Dynamics AX Health Check?
The long term use and stability of your Dynamics AX system depends upon optimal setup. Our team offers an AX Health Check service to review several areas through the eyes of an expert. Our experience, outside perspective, and knowledge of best practices, allows us to investigate some of the most common problem areas. Our technical consultants perform a Dynamics AX system review to examine several components and put together a scorecard and an executive Health Check Summary Report, complete with a list of issues flagged by risk level and suggested steps for remediation.
If Stoneridge Software performs a Dynamics AX Health Check, we're looking at the following items to make sure they are optimally configured:
Dynamics AX
- System settings such as database logging, alerts, security, caching, number sequences, AIF/Services, and virtual companies
- Batch configuration
- Environment and code management
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery
SQL Server
- SQL Configuration: Things such as max degree of parallelism, max memory, trace flags
- Disk Configuration of data, log, and tempdb
- Performance Counters
- SQL Server and Windows application event viewer logs
- Query Performance
- Top tables by size and activity
Application Object Server (AOS)
- Server configuration utility setup
- Performance Counters
- Windows application event viewer logs
Remote Desktop Server/Citrix/Workstations
- Client configuration utility setup
- Performance Counters
- Windows application event viewer logs
Additional Dynamics AX Components
- Performance Counters
- Windows application event viewer logs
- Client Configuration utility setup for .Net Business Connector (SSRS/Reporting Extensions, Enterprise Portal, ISVs/third parties/integrations
Stoneridge Software Health Check Report
At the completion of your Dynamics AX system review, you receive a comprehensive, but easy to digest report, which catalogs issues, risks, and steps for resolution. For a look at this extensive document, download a sample Stoneridge Software AX Health Check Report here.
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