WMI log files

Logging WMI activity is a valuable means to analyze system performance and handle miscellaneous system failures. Prior to Windows Vista WMI was recording its activity to so called service and providers log files; this behavior can be turned off if necessary (on busy systems log files can grow quite substantially).

Starting from Windows Vista, event tracing is used to store WMI-related logs; thus, Event viewer applet may be used to export view and/or discard WMI-related events.

Glossary

Related terms:
WMI
WMI ADAP
WMI client
WMI Counter
WMI filter
WMI performance adapter
WMI repository
WMI tools

IPHost features:

WMI Monitoring Tool
… WMI queries cover a vast amount of inquiries about system resources. Hardware parameters – e.g., local or network drives capabilities, including free space, size and device id; information of currently available system resources; get parameters of any process running; query system services state and so on. IPHost WMI monitors can be used …

Windows Service Monitor
Checking Windows service presence can help to detect problems resulting from important services stopped functioning. Any service running by default can cause system malfunctioning …

Windows Server uptime monitoring
… Using IPHost Network Monitor you will be able to automatically monitor uptime for any Windows servers – Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Windows 2008. Our monitoring software allows …

Server performance check
IPHost Network Monitor offers functionality allowing to perform performance analysis and tuning of arbitrary types of servers. In most cases, such parameters as CPU load, available disk/memory and counters for other resources …

Server performance testing
IPHost Network Monitor offers the complex solution to the problem, since it is able to do both server performance monitoring and server performance testing (see “Microsoft server monitoring”). Thus it will be clear when server’s capabilities are exhausted (by sending appropriate alerts). Thus, IPHost Network Monitor can be used as stress testing software as well …