ADAM and perfmon

8 Feb 2006 5:21 PM

sl

I have been playing with perform and ADAM and looking at the output etc...
ADAM provides an object and a host of counters.

I know I could look through everything and start to pick up what each item
means, what should be low, what should be high etc, but i was wondering
whether anyone had blogged or produced some whitepaper on what each means
and what to expect.

So is 2 LDAP writes/sec good? Is 6.901 SAM user creations a good number?I
know this all relative to what you are running on and so on, but i imagine
there are some guidelines and such that can be used to evaluate how well
things are going.

I will write and blog what i can to aid if there isn't much material around.

I had played around with quite a few tools the last few weeks - anything
anyone feels is invaluable (in case i somehow managed to miss it!). ADPlus
is one that has been recently mentioned to me.

steven :: http://stevenR2.com

8 Feb 2006 6:02 PM

Lee Flight

Hi

no performance WPs AFAIK. Rather than digging around in the perfmon
counters yourself you could look at Server Performance Advisor it
understands
ADAM.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09115420-8c9d-46b9-a9a5-9bffcd237da2&DisplayLang=en

Lee Flight

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"sl" <connect@NOSPAM.stevenR2.com> wrote in message
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>I have been playing with perform and ADAM and looking at the output etc...
>ADAM provides an object and a host of counters.
>
> I know I could look through everything and start to pick up what each item
> means, what should be low, what should be high etc, but i was wondering
> whether anyone had blogged or produced some whitepaper on what each means
> and what to expect.
>
> So is 2 LDAP writes/sec good? Is 6.901 SAM user creations a good number?I
> know this all relative to what you are running on and so on, but i imagine
> there are some guidelines and such that can be used to evaluate how well
> things are going.
>
> I will write and blog what i can to aid if there isn't much material
> around.
>
> I had played around with quite a few tools the last few weeks - anything
> anyone feels is invaluable (in case i somehow managed to miss it!). ADPlus
> is one that has been recently mentioned to me.
>
> steven :: http://stevenR2.com
>

8 Feb 2006 7:14 PM

sl

Thanks Lee. I tried SPA- it fails at the very end, tells me it will install
anyway and then preceeds to uninstall.

So all i have at the moment is the AD/AM object and the AD/AM counters that
i can see when i run perfmon.

steven :: http://stevenR2.com

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"Lee Flight" <l**@le.ac.uk-nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> no performance WPs AFAIK. Rather than digging around in the perfmon
> counters yourself you could look at Server Performance Advisor it
> understands
> ADAM.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=09115420-8c9d-46b9-a9a5-9bffcd237da2&DisplayLang=en
>
>
>
>
> Lee Flight
>
>
>
>
>
> "sl" <connect@NOSPAM.stevenR2.com> wrote in message
> news:O4OLXQNLGHA.1124@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>I have been playing with perform and ADAM and looking at the output etc...
>>ADAM provides an object and a host of counters.
>>
>> I know I could look through everything and start to pick up what each
>> item means, what should be low, what should be high etc, but i was
>> wondering whether anyone had blogged or produced some whitepaper on what
>> each means and what to expect.
>>
>> So is 2 LDAP writes/sec good? Is 6.901 SAM user creations a good number?I
>> know this all relative to what you are running on and so on, but i
>> imagine there are some guidelines and such that can be used to evaluate
>> how well things are going.
>>
>> I will write and blog what i can to aid if there isn't much material
>> around.
>>
>> I had played around with quite a few tools the last few weeks - anything
>> anyone feels is invaluable (in case i somehow managed to miss it!).
>> ADPlus is one that has been recently mentioned to me.
>>
>> steven :: http://stevenR2.com
>>
>
>

10 Feb 2006 6:26 AM

Joe Richards [MVP]

2 writes per sec is good if you are hoping to have very few writes per sec.
Other than that, not sure how you would rate it good or bad. That falls flat in
the category of it depends. Queries per second could be 1 or 150, depends on a
ton of things including the quality and number of apps hitting it.

I would recommend typing in the name of various counters you find interesting in
to google and see what you can find. Look closely at AD perf info related to
Exchange as that is one of the harder hitting apps.

joe

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> I have been playing with perform and ADAM and looking at the output etc...
> ADAM provides an object and a host of counters.
>
> I know I could look through everything and start to pick up what each item
> means, what should be low, what should be high etc, but i was wondering
> whether anyone had blogged or produced some whitepaper on what each means
> and what to expect.
>
> So is 2 LDAP writes/sec good? Is 6.901 SAM user creations a good number?I
> know this all relative to what you are running on and so on, but i imagine
> there are some guidelines and such that can be used to evaluate how well
> things are going.
>
> I will write and blog what i can to aid if there isn't much material around.
>
> I had played around with quite a few tools the last few weeks - anything
> anyone feels is invaluable (in case i somehow managed to miss it!). ADPlus
> is one that has been recently mentioned to me.
>
> steven :: http://stevenR2.com
>
>