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Database Administration
Guide and Reference


NT Performance Monitor

The NT Performance Monitor is a graphical tool, supplied with Windows NT, that lets you monitor the performance of a local or remote Windows NT workstation. The Performance Monitor measures the performance of workstation objects like processes and memory using a defined set of counters. The Progress Version 9 database provides a comprehensive set of counters ranging from measurements about the number of clients running to the number of database records read or written. These counters are derived from the PROMON utility, Summary of Activity option, and they report on the state and performance of a particular database. Progress database support for the native NT performance monitor does not replace the PROMON utility; it simply provides another mechanism that system administrators can use to monitor performance-related data.

The Progress-specific counters are defined in the registry at installation. Each time you want to monitor database performance, you can specify the type of data that you want to monitor and how you want to monitor it. Note that your database must be registered through ProControl, otherwise, the NT Performance Monitor cannot use the Progress-specific counters.

Selecting Progress Counters

Follow these steps to select the counters whose performance you want to measure. Note that the counters you want to monitor must be active before you access the Performance Monitor:

  1. Access the Performance Monitor by double-clicking its icon in the Administrative Tools program group.
  2. Choose Edit Add to Chart.
  3. From the Object selection list, choose Progress Version 9.
  4. The Counter selection list then displays the Progress-specific counters.

  5. Choose the counters that you want to measure by highlighting the counter name and choosing Add.
  6. Choose Done when you have selected all of the counters that you want to measure.
  7. To view a definition of the counter, highlight the counter name and choose Explain.


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