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Right-click anywhere in the chart area and choose Add Counters. From here you can choose from
hundreds of counters to monitor! Scroll through the list of counters until you see Memory and
expand the Memory counter. Select Available Mbytes and click Add. Next, scroll to locate the
LogicalDisk counter and select Avg. Disk sec/Transfer. If you have multiple disks, select each disk
individually from the instance list and click OK as shown in Figure 10-3.
FIGURE 10-3
The counters will be added to the performance graph immediately and as the red timeline moves
across the screen, each counter will be populated with data.
Note a couple of pointers: Organize the columns so you can read each row more easily; press Ctrl+H
to enable highlighting for a selected counter — this means the line graph is highlighted. Select all
counters, right-click, and choose Scale Selected Counters to ensure they are all displayed within the
screen.
Mostly you'll want to monitor a server (rather than your own workstation), and it's possible to use
PerfMon to monitor a remote server by typing the server name from the Add Counters dialog. If
you're adding a lot of counters, the graph can become a little unwieldy because individual counters
become difi cult to read. If so, you have three options: Remove nonrequired counters, hide nonre-
quired counters (uncheck Show button), or use a report view instead of the line graph (select Report
from the mini drop-down on the top menu bar).
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