
Active Directory diagnostics Available if you have installed the computer as a domain controller it provides data on Active Directory health and reliability.Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 include the following built-in data collector sets, as shown in Figure 10-1. System configuration information Enables you to track the state of registry keys and record any modifications made to those keys.Event trace data can be useful when troubleshooting misbehaving applications or services. Event trace data Enables you to track events and system activities.Performance counter data The data collector set not only includes specific performance counters but also the data generated by those counters.You can configure data collector sets to include the following: You can use Performance Monitor or other third-party tools to analyze this information to make a determination about how well a server is functioning against an assigned workload. Some key features of Network Monitor 3.Estimated lesson time: 45 minutes Configuring data collector setsĭata collector sets enable you to collect performance data, system configuration information, and statistics into a single file. Microsoft Network Monitor was superseded by Microsoft Message Analyzer Microsoft Message Analyzer was retired in 2019 Features
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Originally versions of Network Monitor were only available through other Microsoft products, such as Systems Management Server (SMS). Network Monitor 3 is a complete overhaul of the earlier Network Monitor 2.x version. At the request of Microsoft IT, two simple identification features were added - a non-cryptographic password and an identification protocol named the Bloodhound-Oriented Network Entity (BONE) (created and named by Raymond Patch as a play on the codename Bloodhound). Only a few software engineers had access to hardware analyzers due to their cost, but with Netmon many engineers around the company had access to network traffic for free. Netmon caused a bit of a stir for Microsoft IT since networks and e-mail were not encrypted at the time. The code was originally written for OS/2 and had no user interface a symbol was placed in the device driver where the packet buffers were kept so received data could be dumped in hex from within the kernel debugger. The values were 'RTSS' for Ray, Tom, Steve, and Steve - the first four members of the team.

The first 4 bytes of the Netmon capture file format were used to validate the file. Netmon was conceived when the hardware analyzer was taken during a test to reproduce a networking bug, and the first Windows prototype was coded over the Christmas holiday. The LAN Manager development team had one shared hardware-based analyzer at the time.
