162 Chapter 3 • Monitoring and Maintaining Servers
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Introduction
One of the most important, and overlooked, tasks as an administrator involves
monitoring and optimizing our servers. This has become somewhat of a science
with many third-party independent software vendors providing solutions. Microsoft
has many of the tools within Microsoft Windows 2008 Server needed to optimize
and monitor servers.
The most important step of monitoring and optimizing servers involves
trending and baseline analysis. A baseline analysis provides saved monitoring data to
be compared to current data. This is really useful when you have performance ...
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