TravisLaborde
IS-IT--Management
I'm beginning to use the Performance Monitor tool to look at certain counters, to establish a baseline to compare against later when things go bad 
Please, help me with these two questions if you can:
1) I have saved my counters in a counter log, which is configured to run for an interval. But the scheduling does not allow me to be very creative, such as "run for 10 minutes at 8am, 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm, etc..." It looks like a simple "start now, stop now" sort of thing. Is there a way to do better scheduling of these?
2) Reading the saved files from above (.csv) is a terribly inefficient process. I learned to save a set of counters as a .msc file, then read them all from the log instead of "live" but still, it is a very manual process. On top of that, in order to record the stats I want (average, minimum, maximum) for about 22 counters, the only way I've seen to do that is to look at each one in the software, and manually save that data elsewhere. Is there a better way? I've looked at the data in the .csv files, to see if I could parse/save the information myself, but there is something funky going on with the data. The numbers represented in the UI do not always relate to the numbers in the CSV file. For example, the CSV file contains one value per counter, yet the UI shows average, minimum, and maximum. Where is that data stored? Is there any better way to gather this information?
Thanks so much,
Travis
Please, help me with these two questions if you can:1) I have saved my counters in a counter log, which is configured to run for an interval. But the scheduling does not allow me to be very creative, such as "run for 10 minutes at 8am, 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm, etc..." It looks like a simple "start now, stop now" sort of thing. Is there a way to do better scheduling of these?
2) Reading the saved files from above (.csv) is a terribly inefficient process. I learned to save a set of counters as a .msc file, then read them all from the log instead of "live" but still, it is a very manual process. On top of that, in order to record the stats I want (average, minimum, maximum) for about 22 counters, the only way I've seen to do that is to look at each one in the software, and manually save that data elsewhere. Is there a better way? I've looked at the data in the .csv files, to see if I could parse/save the information myself, but there is something funky going on with the data. The numbers represented in the UI do not always relate to the numbers in the CSV file. For example, the CSV file contains one value per counter, yet the UI shows average, minimum, and maximum. Where is that data stored? Is there any better way to gather this information?
Thanks so much,
Travis
