Wednesday, July 24, 2013

To add counters to System Monitor


  1. Open Performance
  2. Right-click the System Monitor details pane and click Add Counters.
    Or, click the s10ag_mpconcepts button on the toolbar.
  3. To monitor any computer on which the monitoring console is run, click Use local computer counters.
    Or, to monitor a specific computer, regardless of where the monitoring console is run, click Select counters from computer and specify a computer name (the name of the local computer is selected by default).
  4. In Performance object, click an object to monitor. The Processor object is selected by default.
  5. To monitor all counters, click All counters.
    Or, to monitor only selected counters, click Select counters from list and select the counters you want to monitor. The % Processor Time counter is selected by default.
  6. To monitor all instances of the selected counters, click All instances.
    Or, to monitor only selected instances, click Select instances from list and select the instances you want to monitor. The _Total instance is selected by default.
  7. Click Add.