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Lesson: Planning Monitoring Tasks
• Reasons for Monitoring
• Monitoring Methods
• Planning for Event Monitoring
Reasons for Monitoring
• Health of the IT infrastructure:
– Normal activity
– Abnormal activity
• Service-level agreement
monitoring
• Planning for future requirements:
– Capacity
– Reallocation
• Identifying issues:
– Reactive
– Proactive
Monitoring Methods
• Historical:
– Event Viewer
– Retained performance logs
• Real time:
– Performance monitoring
– Service-level agreements
• Tools:
– Reliability and Performance Monitor
– Windows System Resource Manager
– System Center Operations Manager
– Third-party
Planning for Event Monitoring
• Cost:
– Money
– Time
• Personnel:
– Reduction
– Efficient
• Respond to events:
– Reactive
– Proactive
Common Performance Metrics
• Cache
• Memory
• Objects
• Paging file
• Physical disk
• Process
• Processor
• Server
• System
• Thread
Analyzing Performance Trends
Historical analysis
Future business requirements
IT consolidation planning
Planning for Future Capacity Requirements
New services
• Upgrades
• Operating system updates
Number of users