mySAP Toolbag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing

7.7. Tools and Approaches

We have covered quite a bit of material in this chapter. It's my hope that by identifying some of the most popular monitoring tools useful in quantifying SAP systems performance, I have helped you narrow down the list of tools you ultimately will need to pilot and use. Certainly, many other excellent monitoring tools exist as well, but space precluded discussing them here—tools like Microsoft's Network Monitor and the Microsoft Product Support reporting tool (the latter of which makes no registry changes or other modifications to your OS, and supports gathering data relevant to Microsoft clusters), for example, are both simple to use and quite powerful. Go ahead and get started now, though—by doing additional research, ...