Database troubleshooting is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to troubleshooting locking and blocking problems. Sometimes the elephant in the room is actually a rhino, a problem ...
Ok, so my current company has no real monitoring, at all (yes, I know). It hurts. We are, thankfully getting SCOM 2012 soon, so general OS monitoring will be taken care of for perfmon type counters ...