MonitorPack team provides regular useful metrics to easily monitor your Windows servers. These are basic metrics, if you want to go deaper MonitorPack is able to check any existing performance counters, services, process, winsocks and shares in your monitoring, for more information for Windows server monitoring have a look at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671175(v=exchg.80).aspx
Open MonitorPack Guard > Expand Monitoring menu > Select manage Alerts. In the MonitorPack Guard manager panel select your alert type and select "create a new alert"
ID | Performance Counter | Instance | Rule | Value |
1 | Processor | Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time | > | 85 |
2 | Processor | Processor(_Total)\% User Time | < | 85 |
3 | Memory | Memory\Available Mbytes | < | 10% RAM |
4 | Network Interface | Network Interface(*)\Packets Outbound Errors | > | 0 |
5 | Logical Disk | \LogicalDisk(*)\Avg. Disk sec/Write | > | 25 |
6 | Logical Disk | \LogicalDisk(*)\Avg. Disk sec/Read | > | 25 |