Paging Files Performance


This topic provides information about configuring page file instances for monitoring by using Central Monitoring Administration.

On the Add Monitor Types dialog, with the Monitoring Profile set to Basic Health or System Performance or Operating System, and the Monitor Type set to Paging Files Performance, provide the following details:

Field

Description

Host Name

  • When the page file instance that you want to monitor is running on a local computer (where PATROL Agent is running), do not change the default value, localhost.
  • When the page file instance that you want to monitor is running on a remote computer, specify the name of the host that you want to configure for monitoring the page file instances.

Exclude Criteria

Specify a comma-separated list of paging file instances that you want to exclude from monitoring.

For example: _Total,C:\pagefile.sys.

Include Criteria

Specify a comma-separated list of paging file instances that you want to include for monitoring.

For example: _Total,C:\pagefile.sys.

Add to List

Click this option for confirming the configuration information that you provided and adding the host name to the list of page files configured.

Modify Selection

Select one of the items that you added to the list in the preceding step, and click this option to modify details.

Remove from List

Select the items added earlier and click this option to delete that item from the list of configured objects and the clear the details provided in the earlier fields.

Add

Click this option to add this monitoring configuration. This information is displayed on the Monitor Configuration page.

After you click this option, you can continue to add more objects for monitoring.

Reset

Click this option to clear off your configuration details and revert to default settings.

Close

Click this option to exit without saving any changes.

Related topics

Configuring in a BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management environment

Configuring monitoring settings

CPU-Performance

Logical-Disk-Performance

Blue-Screen

Registry

 

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