Useful Microsoft reports

Understanding the right report for the job makes all the difference when you're under pressure from the business to produce historical information about the systems you monitor and in this section we discuss some standard Microsoft reports that you should find useful when reporting on performance, availability and SLA's.

Windows Server Operating System Reports

When you deploy the Windows Server Core OS management packs, you get a large number of pre-built reports that are designed to return information on things like Memory, Disk, CPU and operating system configuration.

The parent report we ran earlier in the Running reports section of this chapter is just one example of these type of reports but if you're looking for something with more of a visual summary, then it's worth checking out the Performance By System and Performance By Utilization reports shown in Figure 10.59.

Figure 10.59: Windows Server performance reports

The Performance by System report shown in Figure...