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Performance Monitor is a program to monitor and log system performance on Microsoft Windows. From command-line invocation it is also known as PerfMon, perfmon, perfmon.exe and perfmon.msc, and in some versions of Windows it is known as System Monitor.

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Measure impact of new software on Windows Server

I'm an admin for a small business. I've been asked to give another company my opinion on whether or not our servers have enough available resources to handle the addition of their software. I've had minimal experience with PerfMon so I'm not quite…
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How can I read the dmp file created by perfmon?

I'm trying to debug a memory problem on a client web server that I have no access to. The client, with some help from Microsoft consulting, set up a bunch of perfmon counters and just sent us the results, in the form of a massive (750MB) binary…
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Windows 2003 Server with corrupted performance counters

One of my Windows 2003 servers has for some reason had its performance counters clobbered: I'm about to embark on restoring them to their former glory using the steps in this Microsoft Knowledgebase article: How to manually rebuild Performance…
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Configuring PA Server Monitor for Windows monitoring

My company got PA Server Monitor to monitor 6 servers. I have few questions regarding configuration. So far I've made disk space and ping monitors. Generally two servers are IIS 7, two are SQL Server 2005 and the last remaining are streaming via…
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Win Server 2008 - Reliability & Performance Monitor not restarting

When setting up a user-defined data collection set which is written to a CSV file, I need to get the set to restart itself every hour, thus recreating the log file. Otherwise my log files will get too big. Before anyone recommends another solution,…
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Monitor/analyze/report resource trends on a single server-- perfmon +?

I'm running a handful of video streaming servers (Win2k3 Ent SP2). As my user base is starting to grow, individual users are beginning to report that they are experiencing less-than-ideal service. It is my suspicion that degradation is occurring…
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What can cause SQL Server's maximum memory setting to appear to change over time?

I started analyzing our SQL Server PerfMon logs in Excel, and discovered this. Legend: Red - SQL Server - Target Server Memory Green - SQL Server - Total Server Memory Blue - Available System Memory Server 1: Server 2: Server 3: Has anyone else…
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Logman issues with -v option

I have a problem with logman.exe. I can't get the -v option to work properly. With this parameters: logman create counter EPVMON1 -f csv -v mmddoomm -max 100 -si 120 -o "F:/PerfLogs/EPVMON1" -cf "F:/EPVMON/EPVTASK/COUNTERS/disk.config" it creates…
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How to allow users to monitor performance of a set of servers without touching every server?

I'm not a sysadmin, so this may be trivial. We have about 20 Windows Server 2008 R2 VMs we want to monitor centrally using Perfmon. The only issue is that the user account that's going to be doing the monitoring is not (and I assume will never be)…
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Optimization of Soft Page Faults

I am currently doing performance analysis on a server and I see an application is generating a large number of page faults/sec. After checking the page reads/sec it seems these are all soft page faults not hard page faults (no disk activity). I…
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How to remotely connect using perfmon?

Suprised there is not a ton of information on google when i search for this but there is not. Lot of people asking the question but i none of them have any good answers. I have a remote computer running hyper-v (server) running a Windows 7 x64…
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MySQL Monitoring - Cloud Instances - No System Access

Are there any MySQL monitoring suites/tools built to use on systems such as Amazon RDS where you do not have system access? Looking for something beyond custom tools (nagios, zenoss, ganglia, hyperic) and more like MySQL Enterprise Monitor, MONyog,…
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perfmon counters can be selected but don't display data

I can select perfmon counters, but not all the selected counters will display. For example: Processor/% Idle/_TOTAL is selectable but doesn't appear in the log file. Yet, Processor /% Priviledge Time /_TOTAL is selectalbe and does appear in…
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Missing SQLServer:Databases instances!

Am running SQL Server 2000 on Windows Server 2003 Standard. In perfmon, have access to the "SQLServer:Databases" object, however, only about HALF the databases are listed as instances. I detached a few of the databases (and reattached) to no…
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No PerfMon data through WMI

I'm trying to get \DBServer\SQLServer:Buffer Manager\Page life expectancy data through WMI. When I do this through perfmon, I get actual data. However when I try and pull this from either of these WMI classes(which I believe should be correct) it…
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