Without some sort of baseline, either from internal or external metrics, you may never know how much you have improved the performance of your NT Server or how to detect current or potential bottlenecks. The information you collect using NT Server's Performance Monitor (Perfmon) is particularly important in tuning and capacity sizing.
Performance monitor contains a set number of objects. Each object contains subsequent specific counter metrics that can be collected.
- To log performance data, start performance recording
- Start monitoring for Windows 2000
- Start Perfmon for Windows NT
- Select View|Log, Edit|Add to log. Select all objects using the mouse and shift key,
- Click Add|Done.
To begin the logging session:
- Select Options|Log,
- Enter the name of your log file (e.g., test1-perfmon-log),
- Specify a sampling interval, and then click start.
Perfmon uses about the same amount of resources to collect measurements from one object or many objects from NT Server's performance library DLLs, so collect them all except for network segment.
