It all depends on what you're looking for. It makes no sense to me to just collect data for the sake of collecting it. Of those 214 different items, which ones change quickly enough to warrant collection every fifteen seconds?
What is the intent of this data collection? What is the expectation from this exercise? Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Time Magazine's Person of the Year! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rappaport Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Performance Monitor Well I guess I'll keep this discussion going too ... I just did (over the past month) 15 minute intervals and 15 second intervals and got two totally different sets of data with about a dozen counters. 15 seconds may be excessive, but 15 minutes isn't nearly enough. On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Brett Fernicola wrote: > I agree, 15 second intervals is plain nuts. I would suspect that > server to come to a crawl very soon. 15 Mins is more realistic and > will provide just as good data. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed > Crowley [MVP] > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 3:44 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Performance Monitor > > Who cares? Just do what you're told and if it makes your server > crawl, turn it off. It sounds like that you're going to have to do > what you're told no matter what you find here, so go for it! > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP > Time Magazine's Person of the Year! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > McCready, Robert > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:18 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Performance Monitor > > > Oh, I forgot to mention. I've been asked to gather the > Processor/Memory/MSExchangeIS/Logical Disk/Physical Disk data every > fifteen seconds, on EVERY option under each of those categories. By > my count, that's 214 different items to monitor. Does the increased > item count make much of a difference on the taxing of the server? > > Thanks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed > Crowley [MVP] > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 7:20 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Performance Monitor > > I don't know that your system would notice that kind of monitoring > interval, but what are you really going to do with all that data? > Further, the counters you have listed don't change fast enough to make > a 15-second interval any more useful than a 15-minute interval. > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP > Time Magazine's Person of the Year! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > McCready, Robert > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 12:24 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Performance Monitor > > Anybody know how resource intensive Performance Monitor is? I've been > asked to gather Processor/Memory/MSExchangeiS/Logical Disk/Physical > Disk data every 15 seconds for one week. 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