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Windows Server Performance Monitor
Windows Server Performance Monitor
Windows Server 2008 Data Collector Set (Alerts) Windows 7 Data Collector Sets Windows Server 2003 Alerts Method Viewing the Alerts Summary for Alerts
Assuming you have launched the Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor (Perfmon): Expand Data Collector Sets, right-click User Defined Choose New, and click Data Collector Set. Make sure you select the 'Create manually option and click Next. Crucial step, see screenshot: Select the Performance Counter Alert Now add the counters you wish to monitor. From the list of Performance counters, select the counter to monitor and trigger an alert. Check the logic if whether to alert when the performance counter
value is above, or below the limit. Trap: The Data Collector Set must run as a user who is a member of the Performance Log Users group, alternatively, they can run as a member of the Administrator's group. Other Considerations: You could schedule the Data Collection Set to run at a certain time. It's often helpful to set a 'Stop condition'. Both strategies are to prevent you being swamped with data.
then OK; see Diagram 2. 5. The Alerts have an extra Action tab, check the default setting is, "Log an event in the application event log". Later we will visit the Event Viewer and find the Alerts. 6. The Alert settings are color coded, red means off, while green means sampling in progress. I control the alert by selecting Start or Stop from the short cut menu. 7. Unless the processor is under stress, you are unlikely to get any Alerts. Test machines will not reach the 70 limit without a little help. So, open a program like Word, the initial execution should fire the alert. If you still do not get any Alerts, reduce the Limit to 30 and then try again. As a last resort, change the alert from Over 70 to Under 70. 8. Needless to say, if the Alert is red then it is stopped and to start it right click and select start. Now the Alert will be green.
Monitor, right click the green icon and select Stop. 4. If you make good use of Alerts the log file will soon fill up, so increase the size of the Application Log to 4000 kb. 5. Another tip is to filter the log so that you just see SysmonLog events.