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Sounds like someone just volunteered to be the session host
:-)
Seriously, I'd be interested in seeing that at DEC,
regardless of who Gil is able to shanghai into
presenting. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Fleischman Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 5:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone use Server Performance Analyzer? Gil to answer your question, I have no idea if there is interest in a SPA session, but I will say that every time I use it with a customer I do something “magical” (per the customer J) and they want to learn how it works. So the feedback I’ve gotten has been “wow I had no idea it could do that, can you show me more?” Perhaps this is one of those things that is helpful, but people don’t know it is helpful until after they have attended. :)
~Eric
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Kirkpatrick
I've used ADTEST/ADPERF some and the trace APIs a lot, but I haven't used SPA much at all. It looks like it does a nice job of summarizing statistics and identifying key resource users, but I haven't explored it much.
Is there interest in a session at DEC on SPA?
-g
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Muggli When I was still in IT I used SPA (and its predecessor ADPERF) all the time to troubleshoot performance issues. Personally it’s my favorite AD operations tool (beating out LDP).
You can definitely get performance data for specific LDAP queries (filter, scope, client, index used, ops/sec, and CPU cost). I’m not sure you can get the timings (when they occurred) directly from the reports themselves without looking at the ETL files.
I also ran SPA on all my DC’s everyday at 10:00am for five minutes and saved off the reports. I was able to use the reports to determine trends, etc.
It’s true that there is an overwhelming amount of data in the reports. The alerts help, but are by no means encompassing of all the perf issues you could hit. So I don’t use it only like an expert tool to tell me what the problem is. Performance analysis is still a black art (right up there with debugging). I think this is primarily because AD eployments and “operational tendencies” are so varied (IE, what is normal?).
-Nathan
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Gil- Heard of it, looked at it--it basically puts a nice face on the event tracing data provided in Win2K and Server 2003. In the past I've found that data to be voluminous and not altogether useful, esp. around AD, but I think SPA does a decent job of rolling it up into a more meaningful format and much easier to use interface than the horrid command-line tools provided by event tracing. What I don't see in SPA, which you can get from the raw event tracing data, is timings and system performance data for specific LDAP queries. Maybe I'm just missing it.
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Kirkpatrick Maybe I should rephrase the question then. Has anyone _heard_ of Server Performance Analyzer?
-g
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Kirkpatrick Has anyone on the list used SPA to evaluate DC performance? If so, what were your impressions? Was the data useful? Was the product easy to figure out?
-gil
Gil Kirkpatrick
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Title: Disabling Inactive Users
- RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone use Server Performance Analyzer? Coleman, Hunter
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- RE: [ActiveDir] Anyone use Server Performance Analyze... Gil Kirkpatrick
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