For example, when a new processor is
detected or if the number of processors is greater than a certain number, you can tell
WSRM to switch to a different policy. You might find this useful if you want the policy to
change when a node that is part of a Microsoft Cluster Service becomes unavailable, for
example. You could have a policy that changes the priority of your processes automatically
when a cluster node suddenly goes down and then automatically reverts back to
your normal policy when that node comes back online.
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Resource Monitor
Resource Monitor is covered briefly here, since if you??™ve worked with Performance
Monitor in previous Windows versions, you already know how to use it. When you
click the Resource Monitor node in the WSRM navigation pane, you see a familiar graph
interface (Figure 7-18). The x-axis represents elapsed time and the y-axis represents the
possible values retrieved from each data source. This can be used for general monitoring
of your server resources; but as you will see later, the new Reliability and Performance
Monitor is a much more enhanced version of Resource Monitor.
Hands-On Exercise: Using Resource Monitor
to Track CPU and Memory Usage
In this exercise, we configure Resource Monitor to track total CPU utilization and a number
of Memory Usage statistics.
1. Open Windows System Resource Manager.
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