Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell

Name

Performance — H

Synopsis

Logs performance data and displays it.

Description

Performance lets you collect system performance data into logs and then view and analyze these logs to determine system bottlenecks, establish trends in resource usage, and forecast needed hardware upgrades.

For administrators familiar with Windows NT 4.0 Server, the Performance console performs functions similar to those provided by the NT administrative tool called Performance Monitor.

Using Performance

You can access Performance by:

• Start → Programs → Administrative Tools → Performance

• Install the Performance Logs and Alerts snap-in and the System Monitor ActiveX control into a new or existing console.

The console tree typically looks like this:

Console Root System Monitor Performance Logs and Alerts         Counter Logs Trace Logs Alerts

Console Root is simply a folder that contains two snap-ins:

Performance Logs and Alerts

This lets you collect and log data for monitoring the performance of processor, memory, disk, network, and other subsystems of your computer. For more information see Performance Logs and Alerts in this chapter.

System Monitor

An ActiveX control that lets you display performance logs using the chart, histogram, and report views familiar to administrators who have used the Windows NT administration tool, Performance Monitor. You can display these logs either while they are being created (real-time mode) or by opening previously saved performance logs and selecting the performance objects and ...