Top X Performance Reports

When managing a number of agents, it can be difficult to pinpoint the problem systems. For example, which systems are the most heavily utilized? A report showing a graph of all the resources would be very messy and difficult to read even in a medium-sized organization with a small number of servers. Operations Manager 2012 has a set of reports that address this specific concern, the Performance Top Objects and Performance Top Instances. These reports take data from performance collection rules, perform some statistical analysis, and list the top systems.

For example, Figure 9.5 shows the top five systems with the most processor utilization. It is based on the Processor % Processor Time Total rule. It shows the top five ...

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