Diagnostic Manager 5.0.1 - Reference Guide

SharePoint Server Performance Monitoring

Metalogix Diagnostic Manager uses the Windows Management Interface (WMI) to collect performance and availability information (see Server Performance Information Retrieval) from the servers in your SharePoint farm. You can use the Management Console to review the data for the period that you specify. You can also use the Management Console to specify the conditions that trigger alerts, and the response to those alerts.

Page Availability and Performance Monitoring

You can use Metalogix Diagnostic Manager to monitor and analyze pages that you specify.

When you monitor the page, Metalogix Diagnostic Manager tracks the load times and availability for the page at specified intervals. You can specify when Metalogix Diagnostic Manager generates alerts. You can monitor any page in a monitored SharePoint farm. You do not need to modify your SharePoint farm or the pages to monitor pages in this way. Monitoring page availability and load times has a low impact on your SharePoint farm.

Metalogix Diagnostic Manager can also analyze the performance of the components that make up a monitored SharePoint page. When you perform component analysis, you deploy a Metalogix Diagnostic Manager solution. The Collection Service uses the solution to analyze the performance of the components that make up the page. As with page load time monitoring, you can specify when  Metalogix Diagnostic Manager generates alerts.

Normally, when SharePoint generates a monitored page, the solution is unused and has no impact on your SharePoint performance.

This comprehensive page analysis is separate from page availability monitoring. Because it is comprehensive, page component analysis takes additional time to perform. You should generally not perform comprehensive analysis on every monitored page every time you monitor the page. Instead, you should monitor page load times and availability on a routine basis. When routine monitoring locates a problem with a page, you can analyze the page components to further isolate the source of the problem.

Server Performance Information Retrieval

The Collection Service uses the Windows Management Interface (WMI) to collect performance information from servers in the SharePoint farms that you monitor.

Information Collected

The Collection Service retrieves information about the operating system, including the number of physical and logical processors in the CPU, and the physical and virtual memory. For Web front end (WFE) servers, the Collection Service also retrieves the installed IIS and ASP.NET versions.

In addition, the Collection Service retrieves SharePoint-specific information from the WFE servers and SQL Server-specific information from the database servers in your farm. The SharePoint specific information includes information about the SharePoint services and the performance of search, index, and other services. The SQL-specific information includes information about the database and log file sizes, and performance information for the server and the databases that it hosts.

The  Metalogix Diagnostic Manager Collection Service includes the PageUtil.exe utility that lists all of the WMI metrics, arranged into groups and categories. By default, the utility is stored in the c:\Program Files (x86)\\Metalogix Diagnostic Manager\CollectionService\PageUtil.exe directory on the computer that hosts the Collection Service.

Open a command prompt in the Collection Service directory and type PageUtil.exe -m then press Enter to view the list.