WHY DO YOU NEED TO DETERMINE A BASELINE WHEN YOU MONITOR SYSTEM RES...
4. Why do you need to determine a baseline when you monitor system resourcesand system performance?
Lesson Summary
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The Performance console contains the System Monitor snap-in and the Perfor-mance Logs And Alerts snap-in. The System Monitor snap-in allows you to moni-tor the performance of your computer or other computers on the network.■
The System Monitor snap-in provides performance objects that consist of countersfor collecting data. You can add any of hundreds of counters, each of which mea-sures a particular aspect of system performance.■
The Performance Logs And Alerts snap-in records performance data and systemalerts on your local computer or from remote computers.■
A baseline is a measurement derived from collecting data over an extended periodof time that represents resource usage under normal conditions.■
A bottleneck is any component that slows down the entire system’s performance.Case Scenario Exercise
In this exercise, you will read a scenario about using System Monitor to measure sys-tem performance, and then answer the question that follows. If you have difficultycompleting this work, review the material in this chapter before beginning the nextchapter. You can find answers to these questions in the “Questions and Answers” sec-tion at the end of this chapter.Scenario
You are an administrator working for a company named Fabrikam, Inc., a regionalpublic relations firm with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas, and several branch loca-tions throughout the country. You are working with Pat, a user in the company’saccounting department (which is located in the main office). Pat recently noticed thather computer’s performance has decreased, and it is functioning at unacceptably slowlevels when running resource-intensive applications. The computer is configured asfollows:■
Processor: Pentium 4 2.8 GHz■
RAM: 256 MB■
Hard disk: 12 GB