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In Windows 7, why can't I use perfmon against a remote server?

I am on Windows 7 and trying to run perfmon against Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers. I am running into the same issue with all remote machines. When creating a data collector set, I specify a ...
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Is there a Windows equivalent for Snap Kit?

We are hosting a 3rd-party app on a Windows workstation and we are receiving window degredation / zero window at the receive window, which is not justified by any communication behind the box. We've ...
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Is it safe to leave System Performance Data Collector Set running

I have created a user defined data collector set from the system performance template. I've made no changes to the counters. I can run it manually and it works fine but runs for 1 only minute. Yes, I ...
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Any way to analyze Windows Server 2008 perfmon logs on a Windows XP system?

The server I am analyzing is Windows 2008 and I collected the logs locally. Is there any way to read them on my XP desktop, rather than on that production server?
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Windows equivalent performance counters in Linux with Sysstat (or similar)

I administer a range of both Windows and Linux servers. On the Windows servers, I have the following performance counters logging every 15 seconds to a CSV file: Bottleneck analysis: Processor ...
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Interpretation of typeperf counters for loopback interface

I have collected performance statistics using typeperf for the following counters: Network Interface(MS TCP Loopback interface)\Bytes Total/sec 10 203 372 Network Interface(MS TCP Loopback ...
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Performance Monitor ( perfmon ) - how to open .blg file

I have recorded data through perfmon.msc, and save the data. The extension of the Data is .blg. Whenever i double click the file the below windows get open. here, i can't see any log which i have ...
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How to keep log / keep record of one particular Process

In my Task Manager, there is one process (.exe) I want to keep log or keep record of that process i.e how much cpu % it is utilizing for a particular time \ Day. for example :- abc.exe process Can ...
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Monitor if Perfmon counter sets are running

We have an issue where occasionally over time, a Perfmon counter set will stop. We are looking for a way to monitor if a particular counter set is running, does anyone know of a way to do this? We ...
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Good Perfmon Counters for Initial Troubleshooting

I increasingly deal with users who complain there "computer is slow" or that "it takes forever to load" on the laptops we provide (fairly standard build of Windows 7 32-bit with Office 2010 and a few ...
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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 ...
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Does Logman's -cnf Switch Work?

We've been trying to create PerfMon counters that contain up to 15 minutes worth of data before writing to a new file. PerfMon can be configured to do this, but it resets these settings whenever the ...
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Estimate IOPS for an Amazon EBS volume using Windows PerfMon

I'm evaluating moving our aging infrastructure to Amazon's AWS and am trying to estimate costs. I know our current disk space requirements, bandwidth, and most of the other variables that will affect ...
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Automatically restarting Perfmon Data Collector Sets

I have a number of User Defined Data Collector Sets running on a Windows 2008R2 server, collecting perfmon stats from various servers. Whenever there is a network interruption, or a server rebooted ...
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How do I add a counter for process data in perfmon.exe for a process that isn't currently running?

I would like to perform an ad hoc capture of data using perfmon.exe for a process that runs during the night. I know the name of the executable--lets call it Foo.exe. If the process were currently ...
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Real-time IIS monitoring

We're looking for some monitoring software that will report and display real-time performance information for IIS. We're currently using perfmon to monitor requests executing, requests queued, ...
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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 ...
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Perfmon Total Counters: 32-Bit Wrap Around?

For counters in Windows Server 2008 R2 that count the total (instead of rate) at what number do they wrap around to zero? In this particular case I am interested in \Web Service(_Total)\Total Get ...
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Why can't Logman start?

I'm setting up my first logman counter. But it's not working! There is some file or folder permissions problem. Or maybe I wrote the create-counter statement wrong. Here's my counter commands: ...
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Excel techniques for perfmon csv log file analysis

I have perfmon running against several servers, where I'm outputting to a .csv file data like CPU %time, memory bytes free, hard disk I/O metrics like s/write and writes/s. The ones graphing the SQL ...
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How to aggregate data in Windows Performance Monitor?

I have seem performance counters like this: PhysicalDisk(_Total)\Avg. Disk Read Queue Length Which is an aggregation (average, sum, etc) of data over a period. How to create a custom counter which ...
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How to query custom performance counters using Zabbix agent?

I was thinking of instead sending data to Zabbix Trapper I could send to Windows Performance monitor and then capture it using Zabbix Agent. Is it possible? How?
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Performance monitor visualization tool

I'm looking for a tool to display data from performance monitor counters. I'm looking for something that would be visually appealing (look like a dashboard) and it should be able to aggregate (sum ...
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No permission to access SQL server perfmon counters

My DBA team doesn't have access to SQL server 2005 standard performance counters. What is the required permission that they should be granted? I found some registry entries, but they already have ...
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How to work out the WMI Class name from its perfmon counter name

So I have been provided with a bunch of performance counters that are housed within a particular performance object (i.e. these are not one of the default perf counters that come with Windows) and ...
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Reading the output of perfmon

As per this answer, I've configured perfmon to show Memory / Pages Input/sec CPU / CPU Time (%) Physical Disk / Average Queue length (Names might be slightly different on an English version of ...
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Perfmon - Win 2008 - Recording Metric Twice!

I am noticing that a local perfmon I have set up to measure CPU on a Win 2008 server is actually recording two data points when recording to CPU: "(PDH-CSV 4.0) (GMT Daylight ...
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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 ...
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Real time monitoring of MS Windows servers and their services

We have a bunch of large HDTVs in our monitoring office keeping an eye on all of our production equipment. We are monitoring: Cisco routers HP switches HP proliant servers Windows 2003 IIS SQL ...
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How to Setup Perfmon to Automaticaly Start an “Alert” At System Startup?

I have an "Alert" setup in perfmon, but it gives me only two options to start it: Manualy At an specified time (schedule) So... How to Setup Perfmon to Automaticaly Start an "Alert" At System ...