Querying remote perfmon and reporting on it

[steinooo]

Hi all,

I am interested in gathering data from a specific performance counter from lots of remote machines and reporting on some of the total values.

Has anyone got any experience of any tools which can do this (Preferably free) or do you think writing a script to achieve this would be best?

thanks in advance

 

[chaosophy]

You could look at doing a Powershell script to query the perf counters in WMI.
Or just use perfmon running on one machine monitoring the counters on all the others.

A lot of it depends on how 'real time' you want the info and how many servers it would need to scale to.

 

[steinooo]

thanks for that, I thought about a powershell script, the data doesn't have to be real time but the report I wanted to get out of it somehow was adding the data from one specific performance counter up each day