April 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1128 pages
38h 9m
English
To get the most out of your servers, you need to know how well they are operating, what is "normal" behavior, and what to change when your server(s) don't operate normally. Part of good management practice is the collection of performance data because with that data you can better tune your servers, plan for upgrades, and know when to upgrade your systems.
This chapter describes some of the tools and techniques you can use to test and monitor your servers. Modern operating systems and server applications provide some powerful tools that you can use to help in this area. Performance monitoring is accomplished by using small code snippets called counters that trap and measure when system events occur. Windows, ...
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