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Week 13monitoring and Maintaining Windows 7
Week 13monitoring and Maintaining Windows 7
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
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.
Baseline.
performance.
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.
Performance Monitor
This will open up the main panel of the program.
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
• 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.
Exercises
Practice Using Performance Monitor
Assignment
The performance monitor can be used to monitor the various objects of the
system which are Memory, Processor, Disk and the Network