Windows Performance Monitors
These monitors allow you to check generic performance counters. Performance Monitors can report on installed applications, for example, if Microsoft Exchange Server is installed and diagnostics logging configured within Exchange, Network Server Suite can monitor and alert you as required. The Performance Monitors comprise of:
CPU, Disk & Memory Monitor
Gives administrators the ability to monitor the CPU, Disk and Memory statistical data. The disk option allows all drives recognized by Windows to be monitored in a single rule.
The CPU, Disk and Memory monitor is used to check common attributes of system performance.
Common examples of CPU, Disk and Memory Monitors
- CPU Load (%Processor Time, %Privilege Time, %User Time).
- Disk Space (%Available, %Used). All drives can be included in one rule.
- Memory (Page File Used/Available %, Physical Memory Used/Available %).
WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) Monitor
Gives administrators the ability to select the performance indicators required to monitor and set up actions dependent upon user-defined thresholds.
WMI is a set of specifications from Microsoft for consolidating the management of devices and devices and applications in a network from Windows computing systems. WMI is installed on all computers with Windows ME or Server 2003 upwards installed. WMI provides users with information about the status of local or remote computer systems.
WMI also supports such actions as the configuration of security settings, setting and changing system properties, setting and changing permissions for authorized users and user groups, assigning and changing drive labels, scheduling processes to run at specific times, backing up the object repository and enabling or disabling error logging.
Alerts are raised if the specified instance exists, does not exist or if the criteria triggers at a pre-determined value. When applicable, for example, selecting Processes as a Non-Performance category, it is possible to use a generic value using wildcard ‘*’ in the Instance parameter to raise an alert for all matching values.
WMI Reporting
The WMI Monitor is capable of generating reports based on seven pre-defined and 25 user-defined criteria.
See Reporting for more information on this functionality.