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PerfMonCollector Service Agent 

Nov 26, 2014 05:34 PM

The PerfMonCollector collects Windows Performance Counters (such as CPU, disk, network, .NET and ASP .NET) as Introscope metrics. In addition to monitoring your Windows application servers you can also monitor your CA APM Enterprise Managers if they are running on Windows. If you are using PerfMon you should disable the default Platform Monitoring in your Java and .NET agents!

 

Installation

Run the .NET installer. For more information see the .NET Agent Guide. The PerfMon Collector Agent is installed as Windows Service "CA APM PerfMon Collector Service".

 

Configuration

In the IntroscopeAgent.profile include counters you want to monitor in the following property (see documentation). The default configuration is:

introscope.agent.perfmon.metric.filterPattern=|Processor|*|*,|.NET Data Provider*|*|*,|.NET CLR*|{osprocessname}|*,|.NET CLR Data|*|*,|Process|{osprocessname}|*,|ASP.NET*|*

 

You must restart the "CA APM PerfMon Collector Service" for the PerfMon properties to take effect!

 

To monitor only I/O (network and disks) you can use this configuration (or append it to the default configuration):

introscope.agent.perfmon.metric.filterPattern=|TCPv4|*,|TCPv6|*,|Network Interface|*|*,|LogicalDisk|*|*,|PhysicalDisk|*|*

 

A list of all counters can be found on Microsoft TechNet.

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Dec 02, 2014 12:15 PM

The agent will also pick up counters from VMware if you've installed the guest tools on the OS. There are memory and CPU counters available.

More information is available on VMware's site.

Dec 02, 2014 11:05 AM

PerfMonCollector is really good, been using it to get some stats we was missing before.

Dec 02, 2014 07:00 AM

Thanks, I didn't know there was a perfmon collector too

 

Pete

Nov 26, 2014 06:44 PM

Thanks, Guenter, for the write up!

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