Introductory material to Spotlight on Windows.

Spotlight alerts you to problems with your system by issuing an alarm. You can configure Spotlight in the level of severity that constitutes an alarm, to disable an alarm, and the actions Spotlight takes on raising the alarm.

Introductory material to Spotlight on Windows.

Spotlight alerts you to problems with your system by issuing an alarm. You can configure Spotlight in the level of severity that constitutes an alarm, to disable an alarm, and the actions Spotlight takes on raising the alarm.

The image name of the application. This can be used as a parameter in system programs, such as the TASKKILL.EXE command on Windows XP or Windows 2003 systems.

Notes:

• Click on a process to display sub pages. Process Details Page
• Right click on the process and select End Process (if enabled) to end any processes currently running on the monitored machine (local or remote).
• Right click on the process and select Diagnose Process (if enabled) to select the processes to monitor performance of in the Single Application drilldown. Windows Files Metrics
• Some of the processes may be running other, secondary, processes. Right click the grid and select Show as Tree to display the secondary processes as branches of the initial process.

Process ID. This is unique to each process running on the system. This can be used as a parameter in system programs, such as the TASKKILL.EXE command on Windows XP or Windows 2003 systems.

The percentage of CPU time that the process is currently consuming. This is an instantaneous result.

The current size of the working set of the process.

The current memory allocated to the process that cannot be shared with other processes.

How long it has been since the process was started.

The overall number of resources that the process currently has open. A handle is a value used to uniquely identify a resource so that a process can access it.

The number of active threads in the process. A thread is a process execution unit.

An instantaneous view of how many page faults are occurring for the process.

Shows the number of IO accesses (such as hard disk reads and writes and memory reads and writes) being performed by the process.

The percentage of CPU time that the process is currently consuming in privileged mode. (Privileged mode is designed for operating system components and allows direct access to hardware and all memory.)

The percentage of CPU time that the process is currently consuming in user mode. (User mode is a restricted processing mode designed for applications, environment subsystems, and integral subsystems.

For systems with multiple CPUs, the process affinity, which can be set via the Windows Task Manager, specifies the CPUs that are permitted to run the current process.

Use the Configure affinity option to tell Spotlight on Windows about the CPUs where the specified process is permitted to run. This enables Spotlight to report the CPU usage for that process with accuracy.

Right click on the process and select Configure Affinity (if enabled). Process Affinity Dialog

Note: Spotlight itself CANNOT set process affinity. The Processes Page And Process Affinity

The rate at which the process is reading and writing bytes in all its I/O operations.

The rate at which the process is issuing bytes to I/O operations that do not involve data (control operations, for example).

The rate at which the process is issuing I/O operations that do not involve data (control operations, for example).

The rate at which the process is reading bytes from I/O operations.

Shows the number of IO reads (such as hard disk reads and memory reads) being performed by the process.

The rate at which the process is writing bytes to I/O operations.

Shows the number of IO writes (such as hard disk writes and memory writes) being performed by the process.

The current number of bytes that this process has used in the paging file(s).

The maximum number of bytes that this process has used in the paging file(s).

The ID of the process that created the current process.

The peak size of the total address space of the process since it was started.

The peak size of the working set of the process since it was started.

The number of bytes of memory currently used by the server that cannot be paged out.

The number of bytes of memory currently used by the server that can be paged out.

The priority of the process. Program priorities range from 1 to 31, and are dependant upon what the process is currently executing. Processes started in "Real Time" mode run with a priority of 16 to 31, whereas processes with "High", "Normal" or "Low" settings run in a priority range of 1 to 15.

The services (if any) associated with the current process permitted to run the current process.

The owner of the process on a Windows Server machine (for example, Windows 2000 Advanced Server or Windows Server 2003).

Introductory material to Spotlight on Windows.

Spotlight alerts you to problems with your system by issuing an alarm. You can configure Spotlight in the level of severity that constitutes an alarm, to disable an alarm, and the actions Spotlight takes on raising the alarm.