For example, if you notice that between 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m.
a huge spike occurs in processor utilization, you may want to investigate whether any
scheduled tasks are running at that time that could be causing this spike.
Figure 7-28. Reliability Monitor System Stability Chart
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Reports are accessed through the Reliability and Performance Monitor. Expand the
Reports node in the navigation pane and you will see two categories: User Defined and
System. System reports contain reports generated by system-generated data collector
sets. Currently, these are LAN Diagnostics, System Diagnostics, and System Performance.
The system-generated data collector sets are configured so that their output directory
is dynamic and follows the date and numeric sequence when the collector set
was executed. Every time you run one of these collector sets, a new report is generated
with the date and sequence used as the directory name, as shown in Figure 7-29.
By default, when you open a User Defined Report, you will see only a Performance
Monitor view of your recorded data. What you probably want is an actual report that
summarizes the gathered data into something that can be presented to management.
What I left out in the example for creating a user-defined data collector set is that
if you want to be able to generate pretty reports like you see in Figure 7-29 for the
system-generated data collector sets, you will need to modify the Data Manager
properties of your collector set to enable data management and report generation.
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