1. 14.1 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Goals  Optimize hard disk performance  Optimize disk storage performance  Work with the Task Manager  Work with the System Monitor  Work with Performance Logs and Alerts  Create trace logs

2. 14.2 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Goals (2)  Monitor network and process performance objects  Track Windows Server 2003 activities with Audit Policy  View the Security log  Work with the Network Monitor  Introduce Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) services

3. 14.3 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Tools for optimizing the server’s hard disk performance  Check Disk (Error-checking) tool  Disk Cleanup utility  Disk Defragmenter  Page file placement (Skill 1) Optimizing Hard Disk Performance

4. 14.4 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Check Disk (Error-checking) tool  Checks the hard disk for file system errors and bad sectors on volumes that were formatted with the FAT, FAT32, or NTFS file system  Identifies errors and fixes them automatically  On an NTFS volume, logs all file transactions, replaces bad clusters, and stores copies of essential information for all files on the volume (Skill 1) Optimizing Hard Disk Performance (2)

5. 14.5 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-1 Using the Check Disk tool (Skill 1)

6. 14.6 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-2 Running the chkdsk utility (Skill 1)

7. 14.7 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-3 Running chkdsk in read-only mode A warning is shown because the disk has not been locked from use so that errors that are located can be automatically fixed (Skill 1)

8. 14.8 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Disk Cleanup utility  Cleans out old files on the hard disk to create more storage space  Locates files you are likely to want to delete, such as Temporary Internet files, Temporary files, and Downloaded Program Files  Selects files you have not accessed for some time to target them for compression Optimizing Hard Disk Performance (3) (Skill 1)

9. 14.9 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-4 Calculating files to be deleted and compressed Figure 14-5 Disk Cleanup (Skill 1)

10. 14.10 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Disk Defragmenter  Analyzes disk usage  Rearranges the files and unused space on any partition or volume Page file placement  Holds temporary data, which is swapped in and out of physical memory in order to provide a larger virtual memory set (called paging)  Paging affects disk performance as data is moved out of RAM and to the hard disk  Creates pagefile.sys (also referred to as the swap file) during Setup in the root of the boot drive as a hidden system file  By default, pagefile.sys is approximately 1.5 times the system RAM, which is Microsoft’s recommendation if RAM is less than 4 GB  If RAM is 4 GB or more, pagefile.sys should be set to at least 2050 MB so that it is large enough to capture a kernel memory dump Optimizing Hard Disk Performance (4) (Skill 1)

11. 14.11 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-6 The Virtual Memory dialog box (Skill 1)

12. 14.12 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Dr. Watson  An error debugger utility that logs program errors  Use the log file generated by Dr.Watson, drwtsn32.log, to diagnose and solve system problems  Type drwtsn32 in the Open text box in the Run dialog box to open the Dr.Watson for Windows dialog box and configure options  It is automatically started by the system when a program has an unhandled exception Optimizing Hard Disk Performance (5) (Skill 1)

13. 14.13 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-7 Dr. Watson for Windows When cleared, only information about the thread causing the error will be recorded in the log file; when checked, the thread information for all threads will be recorded in the log file. For more information, leave it checked. For quicker recovery, clear it. For more information increase this number; for quicker recovery and a smaller log file, decrease this number Set to specify how many errors to keep in the log file. For more information, increase this number; for quicker recovery, decrease this number. (Skill 1)

14. 14.14 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Data storage  The overall functioning of a computer depends on the state of its hard disks, where data is stored  As the number of users on your network increases, you will need ways to manage the greatly increasing amount of data users store or retrieve from the file servers Tools to optimize disk storage  NTFS data compression  Disk quotas Optimizing Disk Storage Performance (Skill 2)

15. 14.15 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance NTFS data compression  On NTFS partitions, you can store files and folders in a compressed state  All NTFS files and folders have a compression state, either compressed or uncompressed  Compression can reduce some types of files and folders by 50% to 90%  Many files can only be reduced by 5% or less  Compressed files  After you have compressed a file, you do not have to manually uncompress it  It is uncompressed when you open and edit it, and recompressed when you close it again Optimizing Disk Storage Performance (2) (Skill 2)

16. 14.16 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-8 Setting the compression attribute Select to compress the contents of the selected folder Select to encrypt the contents of the folder (Skill 2)

17. 14.17 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-9 Compressing a drive to save disk space Select to compress the entire volume (Skill 2)

18. 14.18 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-10 The Folder Options dialog box (Skill 2) Encrypted and compressed files are displayed in color in Windows Server 2003 by default

19. 14.19 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Disk quotas  Optimize disk storage by allocating a specific amount of disk space to each user  You set values for disk quotas on the Quota tab in the Properties dialog box for an NTFS volume  The disk limit designates the amount of space a user is allowed to use  The warning level sets the storage level at which a warning will be issued to the user  Tracking usage without denying disk space  You can also use disk quotas simply to track disk usage without denying disk space to users who exceed their quota limit  You can enable quota logging so that an event will be logged when users exceed their limit, when users exceed their warning level, or both Optimizing Disk Storage Performance (3) (Skill 2)

20. 14.20 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-11 The Quota Entries for (volume) window Shows if a user is above limit, has been issued a warning, or is OK Lists the username for the quota entry Lists the amount of disk space used by the user Displays the warning level for the disk quota Displays the disk quota for the user on the volume (Skill 2)

21. 14.21 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-12 Adding a New Quota entry Click to open the Select Users dialog box (Skill 2)

22. 14.22 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-13 The Quota tab Tells you whether disk quotas have been enabled for the volume or not (Skill 2)

23. 14.23 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-14 Enabling disk quotas Used to deny disk space to users when they exceed the quota limit specified for the volume (Skill 2)

24. 14.24 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-15 The Disk Quota warning message Figure 14-16 The Add New Quota Entry dialog box (Skill 2)

25. 14.25 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-17 The Quota Settings for dialog box Administrators can monitor the amount of disk usage by each user and either adjust the quotas or inform the user that they must delete some files (Skill 2)

26. 14.26 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Task Manager  Allows you to manage system processes and performance on a server  Allows you to view running applications to determine if they are placing unnecessary demands on the server or generating unnecessary network traffic  Task Manager dialog box  Applications tab  Processes tab  Performance tab  Networking tab  Users tab Working with the Task Manager (Skill 3)

27. 14.27 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Applications tab  You can view the status of all applications that are currently running  Use the End Task button to end an application that is malfunctioning  Use the New Task button to open the Create New Task dialog box, which you can use to start an application Working with the Task Manager (2) (Skill 3)

28. 14.28 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-18 The Applications tab in the Task Manager Click to terminate an application that is not responding Click to open the Create New Task dialog box and start a new application (Skill 3) Click to change the focus from the selected task in the Task Manager to the application

29. 14.29 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-19 The Create New Task dialog box (Skill 3)

30. 14.30 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Processes tab  You can view a list of all processes currently running; a process is an executable program or an application running as a component of the primary application  You can select any process and click the End Process button to terminate the process  You can increase the priority of a process so that it takes precedence over other processes that are demanding CPU attention  Server administrators can change the priority to Realtime, High, AboveNormal, BelowNormal, or Low Working with the Task Manager (3) (Skill 3)

31. 14.31 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-20 The Processes tab Click to end a selected process (Skill 3)

32. 14.32 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-21 Performance Statistics in the Select Columns dialog box (Skill 3)

33. 14.33 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-22 Setting the priority for a process (Skill 3)

34. 14.34 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Performance tab  You can monitor CPU and page file usage  Graphs of the CPU and memory usage are displayed to provide a dynamic overview of the performance of your server  The CPU Usage and PF Usage bar charts display the current use of the processor and the page file  The graphs to the right of each bar chart display the recent history of CPU and page file usage  At the bottom of the dialog box, detailed statistics tell you the total number of handles and threads used Working with the Task Manager (4) (Skill 3)

35. 14.35 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-23 The Performance tab The current number of handles, threads, and processes in use on the system Total indicates the total amount of virtual memory currently committed to all processes; Limit the total physical and page file size minus the amount of non-paged memory used by the system; Peak, the peak amount of memory that has been used during the current Task Manager monitoring session The total amount of physical memory (RAM) on the computer, the currently available RAM, and the amount of RAM used for file caching The total amount of memory being used by the kernel, divided into paged (virtual memory) and non-paged (RAM) memory (Skill 3)

36. 14.36 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Networking tab  You can monitor network performance  You can monitor all of the NICs installed on the server  Total network utilization is represented on a graph for each NIC to indicate the approximate percentage of network bandwidth in use  At the bottom of the dialog box, each Adapter Name (connection name) is listed as well as the percentage of Network Utilization, the Link Speed, and the State of the connection Working with the Task Manager (5) (Skill 3)

37. 14.37 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-24 The Networking tab (Skill 3)

38. 14.38 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Users tab  You can view a list of currently logged-on users  You can use the Logoff button at the bottom of the dialog box or the Logoff command on the context menu when you right-click a user’s name, to close any files a user has open and log off the user  If this does not work, you can use the Disconnect button or command to disconnect a user whose connection is hung Working with the Task Manager (6) (Skill 3)

39. 14.39 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-25 Using the Go To Process command (Skill 3)

40. 14.40 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-26 The Task Manager Warning message box (Skill 3)

41. 14.41 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-27 Viewing network utilization for the Local Area Connection (Skill 3)

42. 14.42 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance  Performance console consists of the System Monitor and the Performance Logs and Alerts tools  System Monitor  Is used to view a graphical real-time representation of the performance of the resources on your computer  The data captured by the System Monitor is displayed as a chart, a histogram, or a report  Performance Logs and Alerts tool  Is used to record the performance of resources in logs  Is used to configure alerts, which are activated based on threshold values that you set, to perform specific actions Working with the System Monitor (Skill 4)

43. 14.43 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-28 System Monitor New Counter Set: used to clear the currently selected counters so that you can choose new counters Clear Display View Current Activity View Log File Data: used to view the data logged in a specific log file View Report View Histogram: used to view the data in the histogram format View Graph: used to view the data as a line graph (Skill 4)

44. 14.44 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-29 The Add Counters dialog box The Processor - % Processor Time counter measures the percentage of time that a particular thread has used the processor to execute instructions (Skill 4)

45. 14.45 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-30 Monitoring processor performance (Skill 4)

46. 14.46 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-31 Histogram view (Skill 4)

47. 14.47 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-32 Report view (Skill 4)

48. 14.48 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance  In Windows Server 2003, both the physical hard disk (PhysicalDisk) and the LogicalDisk are automatically System Monitor performance objects  Performance counter data for physical disks and for logical drives or storage volumes is collected using the Disk Performance Statistics Driver  If either the PhysicalDisk or the LogicalDisk object has been disabled, you can run the Diskperf utility from the command prompt Working with the System Monitor (2) (Skill 4)

49. 14.49 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance  There are many counters you can track with the System Monitor  Since it would be difficult to memorize the purpose of each one, select the counter you want to find out about in the Add Counter dialog box and use the Explain button to open the Explain Text section, which provides a description of what the counter measures Working with the System Monitor (3) (Skill 4)

50. 14.50 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-33 The diskperf command (Skill 4)

51. 14.51 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-34 The Explain Text dialog box for the Avg. Disk Queue Length counter (Skill 4)

52. 14.52 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-35 The Explain Text dialog box for the Access Permissions counter (Skill 4)

53. 14.53 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance  Performance Logs and Alerts are used to store the data for future reference  You can create two types of logs  Counter logs  Trace logs  Counter logs  Use the GUI data from the System Monitor to create a log file, which is (by default) in the *.blg format (Binary LoG)  They record the state of object counters at specific intervals of time that you set for a specified time period Working with Performance Logs and Alerts (Skill 5)

54. 14.54 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Establishing a performance baseline  You should establish baseline behavior when a server first begins to run on the network and when the hardware or software configuration has been modified  Based on the performance of resources on your server, you will have to take precautions or make upgrades in order to maintain or enhance its performance Working with Performance Logs and Alerts (2) (Skill 5)

55. 14.55 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Counters  The Pages/sec counter measures the number of times the processor had to ask for data that was not in RAM (physical memory), but rather had been stored in the page file  The Memory\Pages/sec counter should optimally remain between 0- 20 on a sustained basis; values over 80 indicate a severe problem  The Paging file counter, %Usage, indicates how much of the page file is currently being used.  You can use these three counters to create a counter log to monitor the memory on your system  Then, you can configure an alert to send you a message when the value is either under or over certain thresholds Working with Performance Logs and Alerts (3) (Skill 5)

56. 14.56 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-36 The Counter Logs node The default counter log, System Overview, is a predefined sample counter log file that uses the Memory— Pages/sec, PhysicalDisk - Avg. Disk Queue Length, and Processor—% Processor Time counters (Skill 5)

57. 14.57 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-37 The System Overview Properties dialog box The System Overview counter log is set to begin recording data at 8:00 AM on 9/30/03 and to stop after 8 hours (Skill 5)

58. 14.58 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-38 A Counter log A counter log using the Memory\Available MBytes, Memory\Pages/sec, and Pagingfile\%Usage counters saved in the Text File (Comma delimited) log file type opened in Excel (Skill 5)

59. 14.59 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance  You can configure alerts to perform specific actions  Send a message  Run a program  Start a new log  Create an entry in the Application log Working with Performance Logs and Alerts (4) (Skill 5)

60. 14.60 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-39 Creating a new log file (Skill 5)

61. 14.61 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-40 Adding counters for the Memory object (Skill 5)

62. 14.62 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-41 Setting the time interval for recording data in the log (Skill 5)

63. 14.63 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-42 The Configure Log Files dialog box (Skill 5)

64. 14.64 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-43 Setting threshold values (Skill 5) Figure 14-44 Sending an alert message

65. 14.65 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-45 Scheduling the scan (Skill 5)

66. 14.66 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Trace logs  Use system or non-system providers to monitor a particular event over a period of time  A source provider is an operating system or application service that has traceable events  There are two system source providers on a domain controller: the operating system and Active Directory  Trace logs do not track object performance data, so you do not select counters when you configure them  Trace logs record only instances when a particular event, such as an Active Directory Kerberos security event, a page fault, or disk input/output activity, occurs Creating Trace Logs (Skill 6)

67. 14.67 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-46 The General tab for a trace log (Skill 6) Figure 14-47 The Nonsystem Providers dialog box

68. 14.68 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-48 Setting the schedule for a trace log (Skill 6) Figure 14-49 Setting the file name ending

69. 14.69 © 2004 Pearson Education, Inc. Exam 70-290 Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Environment Lesson 14: Monitoring Windows Server 2003 Performance Figure 14-50 The Advanced tab for a trace log Select to set the number of seconds between transfers from the buffers to the trace log file (Skill 6)