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Windows Perfmon Metrics

The Perfmon Metrics use Microsoft Windows Perfmon to provide metrics to monitor the system performance on a Windows operating system. These metrics are similar to the SNMP metrics.

Setting up Perfmon

Before you can collect the Perfmon metrics, configure Perfmon on your Windows computer.

For information about setting up Perfmon, see Install Performance Monitor (Perfmon) in Installing.

Note: If you are collecting Perfmon metrics for remote computers, ensure the Remote Registry service is running. This service does not run by default on Windows 7 or Windows 8. You must manually start the Remote Registry service from the Windows Services Manager.

Follow these steps:

1. Select Windows Perfmon Metrics from the Metrics dialog and click OK.

   The Windows Perfmon Machine Name dialog opens.

2. Complete the following fields:

   Machine Name

   Enter the Machine Name of your Windows installation. You can find your machine name by right-clicking My Computer, selecting Properties, and going to the Computer Name tab.

   User Name

   Enter the user name of the remote computer.

   Password

   Enter the password of the remote computer.

   Domain

   Enter the domain name. A domain is optional.

3. Click OK to proceed.

   After you enter valid login credentials, a window appears showing all the available metric types. The Windows Perfmon Metrics window opens.

   The Perfmon Metric window has three panels.

   • The left panel displays the Selected Performance Category.
   • The top right panel displays the description of the selected category in the Counter Description section.
   • The bottom right panel lists the metric that is selected in the left panel.
4. Select a metric from the Performance Category list.

   This list shows all available categories that can be monitored:

   • .NET CLR Remoting/ LocksandThreads
   • .NET CLR Data/Networking
   • Job Objects/Job Object Details
   • Performance/RSVP Service
   • Memory/Print Queue
   • ICMP/Process
   • Outlook/Logical disk
   • IP/Server/Cache

   After you select the category, it is added to the left panel.

5. Double-click the target metric in the left panel to add it to the Selected Counters to Monitor table on the right panel.
6. Repeat until you have added all the target Perfmon metrics.
7. Click OK.