Monitoring W2K performance

Figure A

To start monitoring the four system counters discussed above, click the + sign on the toolbar. This will bring up the screen in Figure B.

Figure B

Make sure that Select Counters From Computer is selected. In the field immediately below this button, type in the name of the machine you want to monitor, preceded by the two UNC backslashes. The console will connect to the "subject" machine and the Performance Object field will be modified to include only the counters relevant to that machine. Next, select the Performance Object, and, in the bottom-left pane, you will see all the counters you can monitor for this object. Select %Processor Time. Notice that the right-hand pane lists all the instances of the object, so if you're monitoring a multiprocessor server, you can monitor individual processor instances or all instances. Select All Instances and click Add, followed by Close. You will then see something similar to the screen in Figure C.

Figure C

You can see that the average for this counter was running at 10.93 percent. For %Processor Time, you want to keep the value as low as possible, and the average should certainly not run over 70 to 80 percent. If it does, consider upgrading the processor. Repeat this process for the remaining three counters. This will give you a screen similar to the one in Figure D.

Figure D

If your graph looks very flat, you can change the Y-axis scale by right-clicking it and selecting Properties. Go to the Graph tab and modify the scale. As you can see in Figure D, I decreased the Maximum value from 100 to 3. That's basically it. You are now monitoring the counters. The Windows 2000 Performance Console is extremely versatile and can offer you much more than the performance counters that I've detailed here. To find out more about this valuable tool, such as setting up performance alerts, you should consult the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit or other mainstream Windows 2000 publications.

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