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Windows Server 2008 R2 : View Server Performance Data (part 1) - Create a System Health Report

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Working with your performance data is part science and part art. Windows Server 2008 R2 has thousands of performance counters with which you can view, track, and perform analysis. Part of the trick to doing analysis is to understand how the different counters work together to give you an overall picture of the server.

You will see in the following sections some of the new tools in Windows Server 2008 R2, such as the system health report, that will provide you with some excellent pictures of your server from the hardware and software perspectives.

You will also see the basics of how to work with the Performance Monitor and the built-in reliability tools on your server to keep your server running properly.

1. Create a System Health Report

One of the tools you can use to help troubleshoot problems is the system health report. The system health report includes suggestions to help improve the overall health and performance of the Windows Server 2008 R2 server. The report provides suggestions based on the performance of your server across many aspects:

  • Software configuration

  • Hardware configuration

  • CPU

  • Network

  • Disk

  • Memory

The system health report is also a handy report if you have no knowledge about a server and want to learn more about the server quickly. When you run the report, it will take some time to run to generate information you will be able to use improve the performance. You will need to be a member of the local Administrators group to generate the report. The system health report is located in the Control Panel on your server.

  1. Open Control Panel by selecting Start => Control Panel.

  2. Click System And Security.

  3. Click Generate A System Health Report, which is located in the Administrative Tools section.

After you click Generate A System Health Report, you will see a screen similar to Figure 1; the report will take up to 60 seconds to generate.

After the report is generated, you'll see a screen similar to Figure 2.

Figure 1. Generating a system health report

When you start looking at a report, you will notice the several categories and the arrows next to the category headings to allow you to expand the sections to view more information about the report. You may also notice in the middle of each heading bar there is an icon that looks like a three-column table. This icon allows you to open the table of contents for the report. When you click one of the icons, you will see a screen similar to Figure 3.

Figure 2. System Diagnostics Report

Figure 3. System health report contents

The contents screen will allow you to quickly view any portion of the report. In addition to the individual categories you see in the report, you'll see a wealth of summary information for your server. There is also one area that will provide a quick snapshot of the overall performance of your server. This area is called the resource overview, and you can see an example of it in Figure 4.

Figure 4. Resource overview

This report not only will give you a general utilization of your server but will also tell you which areas of your server are being the most utilized. For example, when you look at the network utilization, the report will tell you what the most utilized network adapter on your server is.

If the report has warnings, you will see a screen similar to Figure 5.

Figure 5. System health report with warnings

As you can see, the warnings will tell you the issue and give you steps for resolution. Depending on the nature of the warning, the resolutions may be basic. For example, if you have a hardware warning because of a faulty driver, the system health report will tell you what to do, but the advice is fairly generic:

  1. Verify the correct driver is installed.

  2. Try updating the drivers using Windows Update.

  3. Check with the manufacturer for an updated driver.

  4. Attempt to uninstall and then reinstall the device using the Device Manager.

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