Allow me to introduce you to PAL: www.codeplex.com/pal Combined with logparser and Perfmon; it absolutely kicks butt.
A good example for using it to monitor Exchange servers is at: http://blogs.technet.com/mikelag/archive/2008/08/20/performance-troubleshoot ing-using-the-pal-tool.aspx (Note: PAL is not restricted to Exchange monitoring.) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Edward B. DREGER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 1:37 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: "taskmgr + logging" software? MBS> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:52:59 -0400 MBS> From: Michael B. Smith MBS> Are you aware that you can have perfmon log in the background to a MBS> binary file or CSV for later examination? Yes. I'd like something service-, script-, or batch-friendly. If Perfmon qualifies, I'm unaware of that. :-) Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/ Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita ________________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
