Monitoring & Maintaining Windows 7

In this session, you will learn:

 How to monitor the operating system ’ s critical subsystems to

determine how each is currently performing and what (if anything) is
causing system bottlenecks that negatively affect performance.
 About the tools available to provide baseline statistics for each of the
subsystems so you can track changes over time, better evaluate issues
that pertain to your windows 7 machine, and make changes to
proactively affect declining performance

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 LEARNING OUTCOMES

Students should be able to:

 Monitor systems.
 Configure performance settings.

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 OVERVIEW
 You will learn how to monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize Windows
7 by using the Performance Monitor

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 Performance Optimization

Performance Optimization

 Windows 7 ships with many tools that you can use to monitor system
performance.
 The tools enable you to assess your server ’ s current health and determine
what requirements are available to improve its present condition

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 Performance Monitor

Performance Monitor
 The Performance Monitor utility is used to measure the performance of a local
or a remote computer on the network.
 Performance Monitor enables you to do the following:
■ Collect data from your local computer or remote computers on the network. You
can collect data from a single computer or multiple computers concurrently.
■ View data as it is being collected in real time, or historically from collected data.
■ Have full control over the selection of what data will be collected, by selecting
which specific objects and counters will be collected.
■ Determine the format in which data will be viewed — in line, histogram bar, or
report views.
■ Create specific configurations for monitoring data that can then be exported to
other computers for performance monitoring.

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 Performance Optimization

 To optimize performance the administrator needs to create a System

Baseline.

 Baseline is a snapshot of how your system is currently performing.

 Creating a baseline involves setting up a threshold of the system’s

performance.

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 Performance Optimization

It is important to setup baselines in the following situations

■ When the system is first configured, without any load

■ At regular intervals of typical usage

■ Whenever any changes are made to the system ’ s hardware or software

configuration

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 Performance Optimization

Performance Monitor
 The easiest way to open Performance Monitor on your Windows 7 machine
is to hit the Start button and type "performance monitor" in the search
program and files field.

It should be the option at the top of the list

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 Performance Optimization

Performance Monitor
 This will open up the main panel of the program.

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 Performance Optimization

Performance Monitor
• Windows 7 Performance Monitor includes the new data collector set and
this tool works with performance logs, telling Performance Monitor where
the logs are stored and when the log needs to run
• Data collector sets are used to collect data into a log so that the data can be
reviewed and the Data collector sets can collect the following data:

■ Performance counters

■ Event trace data

■ System configuration information

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 Performance Optimization

Monitoring and Optimizing Memory (Refer to page 485 - 486)

 Insufficient memory is the most likely cause of system bottlenecks and to

determine how memory is being used, you need to examine the following two
areas.
• Physical Memory : The physical RAM you have installed on your computer
• Page File : Logical memory exists on your hard drive
 Below are the counters that can be used for measuring memory
 Memory Available MBytes
 Memory Pages/Sec
 Paging File % Usage

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 Optimizing Performance

Managing Processor Performance

• The Processor bottlenecks can develop when the threads of a process require
more processing cycles than are currently available. In this case, the process
will wait in a processor queue and system responsiveness will be slower than if
process requests could be immediately served.
 Key Counters to Track for the Processor

 Processor % Processor Time

 Processor Interrupts/Sec
 System Processor Queue Length

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 Optimizing Performance

Managing the Disk Subsystem ( Refer to page 488)

• Files Disk access is the amount of time your disk subsystem takes to retrieve
data that is requested by the operating system and the two factors that
determine how quickly your disk subsystem will respond to system requests
are the average disk access time on your hard drive and the speed of your disk
controller.

 Key Counters to Track for the Disk Subsystem

 Physical Disk % Disk Time and Logical Disk
 Physical Disk Current Disk Queue Length and Logical Disk
 Logical Disk % Free Space Logical Disk

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 Optimizing Performance

Exercises
Practice Using Performance Monitor

Exercise 8.1 Adding Counters

Exercise 8.2 Creating A Data Log

Assignment

1) How do you optimize the Disk Subsystem, Network Subsystem, Processor

Subsystem and Memory Subsystem

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 Summary

 The performance monitor can be used to monitor the various objects of the
system which are Memory, Processor, Disk and the Network

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