Managing performance has been a challenge since the earliest days of computing. Windows NT 3.1 came with a marvelous tool, Performance Monitor (Perfmon), that allowed you to see what the OS and applications are doing and what resources they are consuming.
This chapter shows you how you can use PowerShell to obtain and display performance information. The recipes in this chapter show you how you can use a cmdlet and WMI to get and report the performance information. This chapter shows how you can generate performance graphs and reports for management. And of course, you can leverage the various recipes in this chapter to conduct your performance monitoring and reporting.
The Windows performance monitoring framework is known as Performance Logging and Alerting (PLA). PLA is built into Windows and uses COM and DCOM to obtain performance and diagnosis information from both local and remote computers.
PLA enables you to obtain a variety of performance data from running systems. PLA...
