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Adding Counters

Because counters continually gather data on system performance, when counters are added, their
displays in system monitor are being added.

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and click Performance.
2. Right click the System Monitor details pane then click Add Counters.
3. Click all counters or select counters from the list to choose individual counters.
4. If an object has instances, click all instances or select instances from the list to choose
individual instances.
5. Click Add then Close the add counters dialog box.

After counters are added, their data can be viewed in real time. Data can be displayed in three
ways:

 Histogram: Display data in a Bar chart.


 Report: Display Numerical data in columns.
 Chart: Display data in Line graph.

Alerts: Use alerts to notify a user or administrator when indications go beyond the limit
specified. In addition, use performance logs to collect data on hardware resources, system
services, and performance.

Alerts are useful when users are not actively monitoring a particular counter but want to be
notified when it exceeds or falls below a specified value so that they can investigate and
determine the cause of change. For example, a user can set an alert when the percentage of disk
space usage exceeds 80% or the number of failed log on attempts exceed a specified number.
There are three tasks involved in settings an alert. They are:

 Select counters to track a specified system activity.


 Set a threshold value for that activity.
 Specify an action to take when the threshold is exceeded or falls below a specific value.
The action can be to send a network message, run a program, or start a log.

Use performance logs and alerts in the performance console to set an alert. To set an alert do the
following:

1. In the Console tree double click Performance Log and alerts then click Alert.
2. In the detail pane, right click new alert setting then provide a name for the alert.
3. On the General tab, enter a brief description of the alert setting file in the comment box.
4. Click Add to specify object counters and instances and updating information in the add
counter dialog box.
5. After adding counters, specify properties for the sample interval and alert threshold on
the general tab.
6. On the Action tab, ensure that log on entry in the application event log is selected.
Specify a network message to be sent to the computer that triggers the alerts.

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