Monitoring Computers

Troubleshooting complex problems requires gaining insight into the inner workings of an application. When you are troubleshooting network problems, one of the best ways to gain insight is to capture and analyze the network communications using a protocol analyzer. Microsoft provides Network Monitor a powerful protocol analyzer. Network Monitor is not included with Windows, but…

Performance and reliability monitoring is useful in several scenarios: Improving the performance of servers by identifying the performance bottleneck and then upgrading the bottlenecked resource. Identifying the source of critical performance problems that make services unusable or completely unavailable. Correlating events, such as application installations, with failures. Use the buttons below to navigate through the…

Expand Event Viewer. right click Subscriptions. Select Create Subscription. Enter Subscription Name. Use the buttons below to navigate through the lesson You can create two types of subscriptions: Collector initiated – The collecting computer co ntacts the source computers to retrieve events. Source computer initiated – The forwarding computers contact the collecting computer. Select Collector…

Windows has always stored a great deal of important information in the event logs. Unfortunately, with versions of Windows released prior to Windows Vista, that information could be very hard to access. Event logs were always stored on the local computer, and finding important events among the vast quantity of informational events could be very…