Guy kolbis

In some cases you would like to monitor how your remote machines perform. Lets say that you developed a web application that was deployed on two machines. Machine A hosts the web application in the IIS machine B will host the SQL Services.

Either one of the machine holds vital information regarding the performances for you application, thus it is important to monitor both.

So, how do you monitor remote computers using the performance monitor?

Basically you first need to allow remote access to the machine and then monitor it.

All you need to do is follow these steps to allow remote access:

1. Go to the Administrative Tools folder.
2. Select the Local Security Policy.
3. Double click the Local Policies folder and expend it.
4. Double click the User Rights Assignment folder.
5. Double click the "Access this computer from the network".
6. Add the required users.

Now to monitor the remote machine:

1. Open the performance monitor.
2. Click Ctrl+I.
3. Select the remote computer (IP or Name).
4. Select the desired categories and counters.

Enjoy.