Server 2003 performance:

• Monitor and analyse events
• Monitor system performance
• Monitor file and print server
• Monitor and optimize application performance

We can optimize performance and test configuration through system monitor and performance logs and alerts.
It allows to configure performance related settings for visual effects, processor scheduling, memory usage and page file.

Monitor and analyses events:
The system monitor and event viewer tools is used to monitor and analyse event or optimizing performance.

Through system monitor, we can do the following task:

• Collect data from local computer to remote computer on the network.
• View data as it is being collected in real time.
• Choose the sampling parameter that will be used.
  (The time period that will be used for data collection is called sampling time)
  (data collect karne ka time = sampling time)
• Selecting specific object and counter will be collected:
• View and determine the format of data in graph, histogram or report view.
• Create html page for viewing data.
• Create specific configuration for monitoring data.

Note:  
System monitor security group can manage system monitor tools in performance such as administrator, server operator, performance, log and monitor user group.
Another monitoring tool is event viewer. Through event viewer to view the events that are logged (event generator) including hardware, software and security events.

Event viewer store log files in three types:

• The system log:
  It tracks events that are related to operating system.
• The security log:
  It tracks events that are related to auditing.
• The application log: 
  It tracks events that are related to applications which is running on computer.

Event types in Event Viewer:
The event viewer logs display five event types which is denoted by their icons.

• Information:
  Informs about the occurrence of specific occurrence.
• Warning:
  Informs about future errors.
• Error:
  Informs about an error such as driver failing to load.
• Success auditing:
  It generates when successful auditing.
• Failure audit:
  It indicates events for failure auditing

Monitoring system performance:
Through performance logs and alerts, we can monitor system performance. The five mains subsystems that should be monitored are as follows:

• The memory subsystem
• The processor subsystem
• The disk subsystem
• The network subsystem
• The processes subsystem

How to monitoring system memory performance:
Start – admin tools – performance – select system monitor – click add button – select memory – click add – select paging file – click close

Note:  

Page file:
 If the program or process is not in logical memory, the system will need to run the program from the hard disk is called page file. Its size can be 1.5 times of physical memory. The allocated size of page file is called virtual memory.

Monitor file and print server:
We can monitor file and print server using task manage, event viewer and system monitor tools.
The task manager show the application and processes data currently running on computer to access it by pressing Alt + Ctrl + Del simultaneously and click Task manager button. We can manage application process performance, networking and user task through it.

Monitor and optimize application performance:
The application performance is the memory, network, process and disk performance, updates can be managed by task manager and system monitor utility.

Monitoring Server Performance:
Tools like Task manager, event viewer, system monitor can be used to monitor system performance.
System Monitor is used to view real-time performance of the resources on your computer.
How to open:

• Start
• program
• administrative tools
• performance

or
Run: perfmon

Note:
Performance logs and alerts are used to store the data for future reference.
Performance object: are system resources such as RAM, HARD DISK, NIC, PROCESSOR etc.
Performance counter: are performance measures for the performance object.
Example:        Pages/sec counters for memory.
Bytes/sec counters for network interface

Two type of logs:

Counter logs:
uses the GUI data from the system monitor.  *.blg (binary log)

Trace logs:
uses the text data from the system monitor.