Monitoring server performance
The ability to monitor the performance of your server system is vital to its effective management. By monitoring performance, you can:
- Achieve the best performance from your server.
- Assess the value of the content to your audience.
- Evaluate patterns and trends in audience usage.
Using the Performance Monitor
A real-time, graphical performance monitor is included with Windows Media Services for observing the behavior of both servers and publishing points. The graphical display shows your choice of performance data over time. In addition to the display, the Windows Media Performance Monitor has a variety of configurable performance counters.
Using the WMS WMI Event Handler plug-in
This plug-in enables you to monitor specific aspects of server operation. After enabling and configuring the WMS WMI Event Handler plug-in, you can receive local or remote notification of server events. You can monitor the following server functions:
- Server. Reports server status or property changes.
- Client. Reports client-side events in Windows Media Player.
- Limit. Reports server limits whenever they are changed or reached.
- Playlist. Reports playlist-related events.
- Cache. Reports any events pertaining to cache activity.
- Publishing point. Reports changes in publishing point status or properties.
- Plug-in. Reports publishing point and server plug-in activity.
For more information about configuring this plug-in, see To configure the WMS WMI Event Handler properties.
Using Simple Network Management Protocol
You can use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to configure remote devices, monitor network performance, audit network usage, and detect network faults or inappropriate access.
SNMP uses a distributed architecture consisting of managers and agents:
- A manager generates queries to the SNMP agent applications and receives objects from SNMP agent applications.
- An agent responds to queries from SNMP manager applications. The SNMP agent is responsible for retrieving and updating local management information based on the requests of the SNMP manager. The agent also notifies registered managers when significant events or traps occur.
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