Perfmon monitoring through ActiveX

[kscriss]

We are trying to use PERFMON through and ActiveX control. It works through our browser when browsing it locally from the workstation/server where it is running.

However when we try to view this same Perfmon web site from a remote position (i.e. a workstation where it is not running) We just see a blank perfmon window with no counters.

Any suggestions:

The objective is to allow several users to view performance metrics of a give server without taking the hit of several customers each olling this data individually. We just want one poll of the perfmon data but allow multiple users to view it.


Reference:
http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.co ... 83,00.html

[jvierra]

You cannot do this remotely due to security restrictions on servers.

Place the HTML definition file in a shared folder and give users access.

I don't recommend this as multiple users can create an extra load for the server.

To share perf data define a data capture monitor and have it roll every 30 minutes. Load the counters into a dayabase and display that on the web site or through an HTA. This will reduce the load an allow for customization by individual usrs.

[kscriss]

Yes your recommendation is good but we are planning to do a real-time monitoring rather than holding the data on a database server. Do you have any suggestions?

We were thinking about using powershel with powergadgets. We would poll the data with powershell and store it somewhere. Then with a powergadet we would read the data and display it to the powershell clients. Do you think this is an option?