SYSMON (PERFMON) - how to move set of counter logs to another server?
SYSMON (Perfmon) is a good tool for measuring performance or assess the system resources usage of a server or set of Windows servers. Using this GUI tool you can view the behavior of objects, such as processors, memory, cache, threads, and processes. Each of these objects has an associated set of counters that measure device usage, queue lengths, delays, and other indicators of throughput and internal congestion.
Since Windows 2000 evolution Microsoft provided the feature such as charting, alerting, and reporting capabilities that reflect both current activity and ongoing logging. You can open, browse, and chart log files later as if they reflected current activity.
Say you have configured the set of counter logs on a server that is required for a historic report. You need to deploy on another set of 50 Servers in your environment, how do you go about it?
Simple, first of all save the relevant counter log as a webpage (.HTM) format which is the available format. Then open up Perfmon or SYSMON tool on the server where you want the corresponding counter logs to apply, under Performance Logs and Alerts choose Counter Logs --> Right hand side pane right-click and choose "New Log Settings from..." option, then open the CounterLogs file that was saved from master server capture.
Job done, then you schedule the relevant logs as per your requirement!
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