Creating the performance monitor parameters

With the Performance Monitor Wizard, you can create new, user-defined parameters based on Microsoft Performance Monitor counters. 

To create new Performance Monitor parameters using the PATROL Performance Monitor Wizard

1. Make sure that you have loaded the PATROL Wizard for Microsoft Performance Monitor and WMI KM files as described in the Loading-the-PATROL-Wizard-for-Microsoft-Performance-Monitor-and-WMI topic.
2. Access the Performance Monitor Wizard (NT_PERFMON_WIZARD) application menu as described in Accessing KM menu commands.
3. Choose the Create Parameter menu command to display the Create Performance Monitor Parameter dialog box.
4. From the Select Performance Monitor Object dialog box, choose a Performance Object from the drop-down list box and click Next.
   Counters and instances for the selected performance object display in the Available Counters and Available Instances tables.
5. Select the counters you want to monitor from the Available Counters table by clicking the counter names.
   Selected counters appear highlighted.
6. Select the instances you want to monitor from the Available Instances table by clicking the instance names.
   Selected instances appear highlighted.
7. Click Create to display the Select Performance Object to Monitor dialog box.

8. Click Done to create the parameters.

   The dialog box closes and PATROL creates your new parameters.

   If you want to create new parameters over again, click Next. Continue with step 4.

For more information about setting thresholds for the parameters created, see Setting or changing alarm thresholds for parameters.

Related dialog box

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