Windows Performance Collection Rules

To create a Windows performance collection rule in Operations Manager

1. If you don’t have a management pack for the application that you are monitoring, create one using the process in Selecting a Management Pack File.

2. Create a new target using the process in To create a Windows Service template. You can use any service installed on a test agent for this template.

3. In the Operations console, select the Authoring workspace, and then select Rules.

4. Right-click Rules and select Create a new rule.

5. On the Rule Type page, do the following:

   1. Expand Collection Rules, expand Performance Based, and then click Windows Performance.

   2. Select the management pack from step 1.

   3. Click Next.

6. On the General page, do the following:

   1. In the Rule name box, type % Privileged Time.

   2. In the Rule Category box, select Performance Collection.

   3. Next to Rule Target click Select and then select the name of the target that you created in step 2.

   4. Leave Rule is enabled selected.

   5. Click Next.

7. On the Performance Counter page, do the following:

   1. Click Select.

   2. In the Select Performance Counter dialog box, type a computer name or browse to a Computer that has the performance counter installed.

      Note

      The name of the computer is not recorded in the rule. The computer is only used to retrieve the details of the performance counter.

   3. In the Object dropdown, select Process.

   4. In Select counter from list, select % Privileged Time.

   5. Click OK.

   6. Clear the text in the Instance box.

   7. Click the arrow to the right of the Instance box and select Service Name (Windows Service).

      Note

      You can also select the name of the service process when you select the counter. The strategy used here is to use the $Target variable to use the Service Name property of the target class. This will resolve to the name of the service when the rule runs. This is to illustrate the use of $Target variables.

   8. Leave the Interval at its default value of 15 minutes.

   9. Click Next.

8. On the Optimized Performance Collection Settings page, do one of the following:

   - Leave the **Use Optimization** option unselected.
   
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     > [!NOTE]
     > <P>If you select optimization for a collection rule, a value is only collected if it differs from the previous sample by a specified tolerance, either an absolute value or a percentage. This helps reduce network traffic and the volume of data stored in the Operations Manager database. Optimization should be used for performance counters that are expected to only change gradually. In this example, the privileged time of the process is expected to vary significantly between samples so it would not benefit from optimized collection.</P>
   
   
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   - Click **Create**.