Usage and Health Data Collection Proxy : Stopped

After installing and configuring SharePoint 2010 farm and if you notice that the “Usage and Health Data Collection Proxy” is still in the stopped state, follow the below to provision it.

Run the following PowerShell command to view the GUID of the service

Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy

Copy the Id of the SSA “WSS_UsageApplication”

Execute the following by replacing the GUID copied from above output.

$UP = Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy | where {$_.ID -eq "<GUID of the WSS_UsageApplication>"}

$UP.Provision()

 

Now check the service status from central admin site.