Remote Performance Monitoring ?

[groovin]

i want to look at things like network util, cpu util, and mem usage. Preferably something that can log it and maybe even create some kind of graph over time.

any suggestions?

EDIT: for windows 2k/XP machines

thanks

 

[gaidin123]

Yeah, just use the Windows Performance tool. 🙂 It creates logs, and graphs, and you can connect to Windows only machines over the network and graph/log a ridiculous amount of statistics including all 3 that you mentioned. You can simply create jobs to run all the time or only at certain times, etc.

You can find it by going into the Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Performance

Gaidin

 

[groovin]

ahh, i thought there'd be something clever like that already built... thanks!

 

[spyordie007]

Keep in mind that the account you use to run the performance monitor msc will need privilages to the remote server. To give a user account privilages to remotely monitor the server see http://support.microsoft.com/?id=300702

NOTE: Administrator accounts already have all the appropreate privilages.

 

[groovin]

ok im looking at perf mon now.... it looks like exactly what i need.. but im having a problem...

i can connect to another workstation (i have admin rights) and use sys mon to view all the counters on it, but i cannot create a performance log of it. i need to keep a log for several days that i can look back at.

My event viewer is telling me:

The service was unable to add any counters to the station1 log or alert. This log or alert will not be started.
The service was unable to add the counter '\\station1\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time' to the station1 log or alert. This log or alert will continue, but data for that counter will not be collected. To collect data from a remote computer, the Performance Logs and Alerts service must run under an account that has access to the remote system.

i would think that if i could view somethign in real time, i should be able to create a log of this...

 

[mikecel79]

Are you in a domain? If so set the Performance Logs and Alerts service to start with an account in the domain with rights over both machines. Because you are running these as a scheduled job it runs with the Local System account which does not have rights on the other machine. When you run it in real-time you are running it under your own account.

 

[SearchMaster]

Originally posted by: groovin
ok im looking at perf mon now.... it looks like exactly what i need.. but im having a problem...

i can connect to another workstation (i have admin rights) and use sys mon to view all the counters on it, but i cannot create a performance log of it. i need to keep a log for several days that i can look back at.

My event viewer is telling me:

The service was unable to add any counters to the station1 log or alert. This log or alert will not be started.
The service was unable to add the counter '\\station1\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time' to the station1 log or alert. This log or alert will continue, but data for that counter will not be collected. To collect data from a remote computer, the Performance Logs and Alerts service must run under an account that has access to the remote system.

i would think that if i could view somethign in real time, i should be able to create a log of this...

I've had the same problem (no access errors, but it simply would not log remote boxes). If you can have perfmon run on the other box and log, you could always copy the logs over.

 

[groovin]

mikecel, that seems to work! thanks!