Chapter 27. Performance Monitoring

For a network to operate at its best, you must be able to recognize bottlenecks and take action to eliminate them. This chapter covers the system and network monitoring tools in Microsoft Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2011 that enable you to detect problems and tune your system to its optimum performance level.

Performance Monitor encompasses simple tools that can help you track server loads, locate persistent errors, customize the data you want to collect in logs, define limits for alerts and automatic actions, generate reports, and view past performance data.

To open Performance Monitor, click Start, type perfmon in the Start Search box, and press Enter. Or you can select Performance Monitor from the Administrative ...

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