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Chapter 18 Performance Monitor
In This Chapter Performance Monitor capabilities Performance Monitor basics Six quick steps to using Performance Monitor The five faces of Performance Monitor How to collect data In-depth analysis: memory bottlenecks, disk bottlenecks, network bottlenecks Analysis: file and print servers, application server
estled in the Administrative Tools program group you will find N Performance, which launches Performance Monitor. This unassuming tool embodies many of the powers of Windows 2000 Server. By the end of this chapter, I think that you will agree that Performance Monitor is a lot more powerful than you previously thought. Here is where the pedal meets the metal. Performance Monitor is a tool to be mastered so that you can optimize and continually improve the performance of your Windows 2000 Server network. Although Task Manager (discussed in Chapter 20) provides several measurements similar to those presented by Performance Monitor, it is the latter that enables us to track long-term trends and measurements such as those discussed in Chapter 17. Performance Monitor is referred to as Performance, System Performance Monitor, and System Monitor in some of the Windows 2000-related documentation and in peer-group discussions. That’s because in the early beta cycle of Windows NT Server 5.0 (which was renamed Windows 2000 Server), the tool known as System Monitor was really Performance Monitor. I’ll use the term Performance Monitor in this chapter. 4620-1 ch18.f.qc 10/28/99 12:20 PM Page 570
570 Part VI: Optimizing Windows 2000 Server The Power of Performance Monitor Some of the best deals about Windows 2000 Server are the no-cost utilities that are included, such as Performance Monitor. While Novell includes its own form of “performance monitor” (MONITOR.NLM) for free with NetWare, I think you will quickly agree that Windows 2000 Server’s Performance Monitor, with its many capabilities, is one of the best tools you never had to pay for (see Figure 18-1).
Figure 18-1: Performance Monitor
Here are some features of Performance Monitor: Logs and saves historical performance data Charts data in realtime Monitors server-based applications on an individual basis (with its own counters) Using individual object and counters is a big deal when it comes to the effective rollout and management of Microsoft SQL Server. Microsoft offers several courses on Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 deployment, administration and development (see www.microsoft.com for more information). 4620-1 ch18.f.qc 10/28/99 12:20 PM Page 571
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