Chapter 13. Managing Performance and Usage
In this chapter, we cover the following recipes:
- Retrieving performance counters using Get-Counter
- Using WMI to retrieve performance counters
- Creating and using PLA data collector sets
- Reporting on performance data
- Generating performance-monitoring graphs
- Creating a system diagnostic report
- Reporting on printer usage
- Monitoring Hyper-V utilization and performance
Introduction
Understanding how your infrastructure is being utilized is a key task for many IT pros today, and has been a challenge since the earliest days of computing. Windows NT 3.1 came with a marvelous tool, Performance Monitor (perfmon), that allowed you to see what the OS and applications are doing and what resources they are consuming. The Windows ...
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