I need to do performance baslining on a number of servers, not owned by me.
To make it easy for server owners i want to write an app that will:
Take a standard perfmon xml/html config file containing counters and open it in perfmon so that perfmon will record the data for the counters in the config file.
As the servers are windows server 2003, i cannot use logman.exe, as logman on server 2003 does not have an import command, and does not accept xml/html config files.
I have scoured the web to find out how to do this but there is no documentation anywhere. A friend that used this site recommended it as there are many tallented scripters here.
Can you advise on how i might accomplish this task?
I could just advise the server owners to open perfmon, select the desired counters, start the counter log running to log the data to a db... but i want to keep it a simple operation so theres as little as possible for people to mess up.
Thanks.