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Determine the Location of Servers with Performance Issues

Server performance issues can be quickly seen on the Performance by Server view in the Operations page. Troubleshooting with the management console helps narrow the source of an issue to a single server. You can determine the:

• recency of the issue on the time axis of the view
• duration of the problem from the width of the colored segment
• severity of the issue by the color of the segment
• pervasiveness of the problem by how many networks display with a similar degradation profile in the corresponding Performance by Network view.

The root cause might be obvious from an investigation. The management console focuses investigation efforts so that you might use other specialized tools to find the root cause quickly.

To help locate servers in your enterprise network, a best practice is to name devices in a meaningful way within the management console, such as Third Bank servers, South Building Server C, and so on. Servers in server farms can contain a common identifier, Web servers should be named similarly, and so forth.