When monitoring Microsoft SQL Server, and the operating system on which it sits, via Perfmon, there are three main areas on which to concentrate your initial efforts:

- Disk activity
- Processor utilization
- Memory usage

There is no pre-determined option in SilkPerformer"s Server Analysis Module (SAM) for analyzing the following range of measures, and so you will have to create your own.

When creating this new data Source, you should go to

MONITOR SERVER | SELECT FROM PRE DEFINED DATA SOURCES | CUSTOM DATA | NT PERFORMANCE MONITORING DATA

and supply the relevant connection data. Then, in the "Browse NT Performance Counters" dialog (see figure 1), you should select the following counters:

1. Memory
- Pages/sec
- Page Reads/sec

2. Physical disk

- Avg. Disk Queue Length,
- Avg. Disk sec/Transfer
- % Disk Time

3. Processor

- % Processor Time

4. System

- Processor Queue Length

5. SQL Server Access Methods

- Page Splits/sec

6. SQL Server General Statistics

- User Connections

7. SQL Server Buffer Manager

- Buffer Cash Hit Ratio

 



figure 1: the "Browse NT Performance Counters"dialog

Original KBID: 17320