Figure 7-29. Viewing a report of a System Diagnostics Report
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Hands-On Exercise: Configuring a Data
Collector Set to Generate Reports
In this exercise we configure the Baseline Performance Metrics data collector set that we
created in a previous example to allow it to generate a report view.
1. Open Reliability and Performance Monitor.
2. Expand Data Collector Sets and then User Defined.
3. Right-click Baseline Performance Metrics and select Data Manager.
4. On the Data Manager tab, check the Enable Data Management and Report
Generation checkbox and click OK (Figure 7-30).
Figure 7-30. Enabling data management and report generation
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5. To test the reporting functionality, right-click Baseline Performance Metrics
and select Run Start.
6. Wait a few seconds or minutes so it has time to gather some data, and then
right-click Baseline Performance Metrics again and select Stop.
7. Expand Reports and then User Defined.
8. Expand Baseline Performance Metrics and select the newly generated report.
The report should look similar to Figure 7-31.
9. To switch to the Performance Monitor view, select the report System Monitor
Log.blg.
Figure 7-31. Viewing a user-defined data collector set report
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CHAPTER SUMMARY
Monitoring your server??™s performance effectively and then tuning it so that you can maximize
its full potential is really what resource management and performance monitoring
are all about.
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