Windows 2000 Performance Tool

Windows 2000 Performance Tool

Using Performance Tools

The term “Windows 2000 Performance tool” is somewhat of a misnomer as it is composed of a minimum of two parts: System Monitor, and Performance Logs and Alerts. With System Monitor, you can collect and view real-time data about memory, disk, processor, network, and other activity in graph, histogram, or report form. Through the use of Performance Logs and Alerts you can configure logs to record performance data and set system alerts to notify you when a specified counter’s value is above or below a defined threshold.

Opening (Starting) Performance

• To open Performance, click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel. In Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Performance.
• For information about using Performance Logs and Alerts, click the Action menu in Performance, and then click Help. For information about using System Monitor, in the console tree, click System Monitor, and then on the System Monitor toolbar, click the Help button.

Diskperf is a good example.

Controls the types of counters that can be viewed using System Monitor.

diskperf [-y[d|v]|-n[d|v] [\\computername]

Parameters

none

Reports whether disk performance counters are enabled on the local or specified computer and identifies the counters enabled: for physical drives, logical drives, or both.

-y

Sets the system to start both physical and logical disk performance counters when the system is restarted.

-yd

Enables disk performance counters used for measuring performance of physical drives when the system is restarted. This is the default setting.

-yv

Enables disk performance counters used for measuring performance of logical drives when the system is restarted.

-n

Sets the system to not use any disk performance counters when the system is restarted.

-nd

Disables disk performance counters for physical drives when the system is restarted.

-nv

Disables disk performance counters for logical drives when the system is restarted.

computername

Specifies the computer on which you want to see or set disk performance counter use. If a computer name is not specified, the local computer is assumed.

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