Use perfmon with ePO - On-prem: best practice

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The 32-bit Windows Reliability and Performance Monitor (perfmon) is a tool to develop server benchmarks, which can help you manage your server performance.

  1. Start the Windows Performance Monitor.

  2. In the Add Counters list, browse or scroll down to the ePolicy Orchestrator Server counters selection, then click + to expand the list of counters.

  3. To view the output as a report, click the Change Graph Type icon and select Report from the list.

    For example, the Open ePO Agent Connections counter tells you how many agents are communicating with the ePO - On-prem server simultaneously. A healthy ePO - On-prem server keeps this number fairly low, usually under 20. For a ePO - On-prem server that is struggling, this number is over 200 (the maximum is 250) and stays high, and rarely drops below 20.

  4. Click Add to move the selected counter into the Added counters list, then click OK.

  5. To determine the stress on your ePO - On-prem server and how quickly it can process events from all your agents, add the following counters, then click OK.

    • Completed Agent Requests/sec

    • Currently Running Event Parser Threads

    • Data Channel saturation

    • Data channel threads

    • Event Queue Length

    • Max Event Parser Threads

    • Open ePO Agent Connections

    • Processor Events/sec

    • Static event queue length

The tests listed here are just a few that you can perform with the ePO - On-prem server using the Windows Performance Monitor. For additional Windows Performance Monitor information, see these Microsoft websites:

  • Configure the Performance Monitor Display (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722300.aspx)

  • Working with Performance Logs (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721865.aspx)