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A low amount of Free memory is not a bad thing — it often means Windows is using your RAM to cache parts of the hard disk, thus speeding up many operations. If the RAM is needed, the caches will give it back. One of the best kept secrets, the Resource Monitor, is also accessible from here. Have you ever been using a computer or server and noticed it get really sluggish?
Sometimes you can hear the disk thrashing and know that some process is busier than you want it to be. Start the Resource Monitor and click the Disk tab. Looking at the file names will sometimes give a hint about whether the process is doing a backup, writing to a log file, or some other activity.
Performance Monitor is a real gem on Windows, and many IT folks would benefit by becoming more comfortable with it. The operating system publishes many useful stats here active database connections, active HTTP connections, CPU usage, time per disk read, network usage, process memory, etc. In addition, other application providers can also include stats, and most all? When you first start perfmon.
Also note that Perfmon can connect to other computers on your network and display their counter values. The Services applet services. Right click a service and go to Properties. Here you can tell Windows what it should do if the service stops unexpectedly crashes. Restarting the service is often a good option. It shows a wealth of information about problems that might be happening on a server, including hardware errors, server restarts and more.
If you have a blue screen, a server hang, or an application misbehaving, look in the Event Log first. PsExec can be very handy in many situations.
Unix has its cron, and Windows has Task Scheduler. Task Scheduler can be found in Administrator Tools, or started via taskschd.
From the screenshot, you can see that various companies Google and Adobe for example will create scheduled tasks so their applications are launched periodically for some background processing. Windows itself has many tasks it uses.
And of course, you can easily create your own. Or run a periodic database cleanup script. Or to check for updates. To see connections along with the process that created them, run netstat —b. To see current connections as well as ports that are listening for incoming connections, run netstat —ab as shown below:. Note that the process involved with the port is shown below the port information. So mysqld is listening on port , not If you ever need to see network packets entering and leaving a computer, look no further than Wireshark.
This is a fantastic free SysAdmin tool that will capture every packet, and even better, break each one down into its appropriate protocol headers and content. The documentation is great, and once you get the hang of it, you can spy on all of the applications on your computer, see what servers they are talking too, and what information is being sent and received.
Top Windows SysAdmin Tools, continue reading here …. Interesting article, I would add a couple of things there which I think will help a sysadmin a lot:. As an alternative to mstsc, I use mRemoteNG. This is a free tool in which you can group multiple remote connections instances. I would recommend it to anyone.
Windows System Control Center is another software in which you have a central administration console containing a lot of useful tools. Powershell is probably the most powerful utility that you can use in Windows. A lot of the modern scripting is done using Powershell and I've been in contact with it for quite a while now and I can say that is really great. NetMon gives per process traffic listing. That may be helpfull in some instances…. An excellent article. They have proved invaluable over the years.
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Take a look at the simplicity, the number of filetypes it works with, tools including diff and lorem, and the extremely small memory footprint, and you will see why it is my go-to editor. You can manage any aspect of your Windows infrastructure using these tools, and use RunAs if you need to log on as a different user.
This is that tool. PowerShell Collection Not a single tool, but a collection of modules for PowerShell all in one place. MailRadar Open Relay Test Here are 19 separate tests that try every possible way to fool your server into relaying.
Pass all 19 and you should be good to go. This site prompts you for your email address, and then performs a DNS lookup for the associated MX records and displays the results. It can test from three global locations so you can test whether changes have replicated throughout the DNS. Set up a valid user account on your system first so you can test things that require authentication.
Microsoft Exchange Server Error Code Tool Originally built for Exchange, this is a great tool to have on any system you might use when looking at error logs. NK2Edit Ever needed to selectively remove autocomplete names that were wrong from Outlook?
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