Setting Up Your Monitoring Configuration
You begin monitoring your sites by planning for capacity and by configuring your monitoring tools to keep monitoring overhead low. You should create monitoring configurations that can be saved and copied to other computers using the System Monitor in the Microsoft Management Console (MMC). A monitoring configuration will help you highlight data center issues and visualize traffic flow through your system. Creating this configuration can also help you to understand site software issues and see how the software is interrelated.
In planning your configuration, do the following:
- Configure Performance Logs and Alerts to report data for the recommended counters at regular intervals, such as every 10 to 15 minutes.
- Retain logs over extended periods of time.
- Store resulting data in a database, and query the data in order to analyze it and report on overall performance assessment, trend analysis, and capacity planning.
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