The document provides an overview of internal monitoring tools available for Windows 2012, categorizing them into built-in Windows tools, open source alternatives, and network monitoring tools. It lists various internal tools such as Task Manager, Resource Monitor, and Performance Monitor, as well as open source solutions like Zabbix and Munin. The guide serves as a resource for users seeking effective performance monitoring of their systems.

1. Windows 2012 Internal Monitoring
Tools
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2. Windows 2012 has numerous
internal monitoring tools.
If you are in need of good performance
monitoring tools, then the guide below will
help you. These tools are categorized as
those that are included with Windows, open
source alternatives, and network monitoring
tools.

3. Those included with Windows
Internal Windows monitoring tools included with
windows include the following.
●Task Manager
●Resource Monitoring Tools
●Performance Monitor
●Reliability Monitor
●Microsoft SysInternals
●System Center Operations Manager

4. 1. The Task Manager
This is a pre-installed
application on any
Windows server. It helps
you monitor your CPU
resources, memory and
any other Windows
performance counter.

5. 2. Resource Monitoring Tools
The resource monitor is
an application that helps
in monitoring disk,
network, memory and
CPU usage. It is
particularly useful for
those who need higher
level I/O monitoring.

6. 3. Performance Monitor
It’s also called
perfmon.msc or
perfmon.exe, and
it’s meant for
stand-alone
servers to monitor
performance
counter that have
good historical
data.

7. 4. Reliability Monitor
It’s used to track
changes in the
system and report
any problem. It
communicates
whenever you
update or install an
app.

8. 5. Microsoft SysInternals
This set of tools is
meant for Windows
administrators. You
can get it for free
from the official
Microsoft website. it
checks your registry
and files system
activity.

9. 6. System Center Operations
Manager
It has a set of tools
that will facilitate the
control, monitoring,
deployment and
turning off all your
Microsoft software.

10. Those Meant for Open Source
Alternatives
Windows 12 monitoring tools meant for open source
alternatives include the following.

11. 1. Zabbix
It’s an
application that
offers storage,
graphing,
collection and
alerting
services.

12. 2. Munin
It’s the best if you
have very basic
monitoring needs. It
doesn’t easily scale
to over a hundred
servers. It’s built on
the top of your
RRDTool.

13. 3. Observium
This a platform that offers a network-focused
monitoring in Windows servers.

14. 4. Zenoss
It’s built by the
Python Zope,
and it’s meant
for network
monitoring. It
has OpenTSDB
that’s mainly
used for
storage
backend.

15. 5. Ganglia
It’s a distributed and
scalable monitoring
system that is meant for
high and complex
performance computing
systems. It has a
hierarchical design so as
to meet the needs of
grids and clusters.

16. 6. Centreon
This is a very
comprehensive
monitoring
platform that was
upgraded from the
RRDTool and
MySQL, to
InfluxDB and
ElasticSearch.

17. 7. Pandora FMS
It’s developed to manage
the IT infrastructure. It
consists of Windows
servers, virtual
infrastructure, and
network equipment
among other apps.

18. 8. NetXMS
This is a Java app that has desktop UI and it
monitors your network devices.

19. 9. OpenNMS
This is a
wide-
ranging
monitoring
platform that
supports
JMX, WMI
and SNMP.

20. 10. HypericHQ
It’s a program that
monitors your
middleware, operating
systems, any other apps
that are running on your
cloud, virtual, and
physical environments.

21. 11. Bosun
It evaluates alerts
and develops very
detailed
notifications for
you.

22. Network Monitoring Tools
The most common network monitoring tools include
the following.

23. 1. Ntop
This program analyzes
records and captures all
your network traffic at
your system’s application
layer. With it, you can
know the protocols and
apps that are consuming
much of your bandwidth.

24. 2. NeDi
It does auto-
discovery of a
whole network
topology together
with all the
devices
connected to it. It
helps you locate
all your existing
network assets.

25. 3. BandwidthD
It helps in the
measurement
of bandwidth
in all sub-
networks and
displays
graphs
showing this.

26. Conclusion
This is a good guide if you want to ensure that you
are monitoring your systems in the most effective
manner.