Monitoring and Tuning Your Server
Monitoring and Tuning Your Server |
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The processors in a server running IIS 5.0 must support the operating system and processes unrelated to Internet services, as well as IIS 5.0 processes. The processors must also support applications related to Internet services, such as those that assemble data from Microsoft® SQL Server™ databases or that generate dynamic Web pages.
There are several tools you can use to monitor processor performance. Web Capacity Analysis Tool (WCAT) and the Web Application Stress Tool are stress-testing tools that are both available on the Resource Kit companion CD. In addition, Task Manager, PerfLog, and PerfMon are commonly used to monitor Windows 2000–based servers. Remember that all monitoring tools use system resources. Monitor the processor use of the process in which the tool runs. Then, before you analyze your data, subtract the processor time of the tool process from the data.