Win 2000 performance monitoring

[iazms]

I have 3 servers all running IIS on Windows 2000 and Siemens hardware.

I want to know, are there any performance monitoring or capacity monitoring tools/cheap software/ scripts that i cud use to gather info eg every 15 mins intervals on how the CPU and other attributes are performing for these 3 servers ?!?

Its a task I have been asked to reasearch into for my work colleagues and dont really have a clue where to start looking or what to expect....any help much appreciated..

Thanks
M.S

 

[NickFerrar]

the basic Performance Monitor in Windows 2000 will do this for you, IIS also installs some additional counters useful for monitoring.

There's a lot of info on the web about configuring perfmon and IIS.

 

[burtechine]

NickFerrar is right. The best and free way is Win-2K's internal counters. Click start button and select Run, then type "perfmon.msc /s" (without the quotes), this will bring up the performance monitor applet. Then click Action-NewWindowFromHere to create a basic monitor pane. Then right click on one of the buttons on the top line and select AddCounters, then select any of the internal counters of your liking (you can also access the performance applet thru the start-settings-controlpanel-admintools-performance).

Remember, the more counters you enable, the more CPU you'll use for monitoring. So choose the ones that are absolutely needed.

If you want to have a continuous desktop view of Windows internal counters, there are quite a few freeware interfacing tools for that. You might like the one called 'Coolmon', that's the least resource-hungry one as far as I know.

 

[iazms]

Cheers guys,
thats a good start for now. i just had a quick tinker with the performance tool under Admin Tools....and to say all this time i didnt even realise that existed.
Thanks again
M.S