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information about downloading the DPM Management Pack, see th
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=47215).
The Performance Counters for Monitoring DPM table lists counters that can be useful for
monitoring DPM server performance. For more information about specific performance counters,
see Performance Logs and Alerts Help. To open the Performance tool, click Start, point
to Administrative Tools, and then click Performance. On the Action menu, click Help.
Performance Counters for Monitoring DPM
Performance Object
and Counter
Description
Value That Might
Indicate a Problem
Possible Causes
Memory: Avail/MBytes Measures the memory
that is available to
processes running on
the specified DPM
server. The
Avail/MBytes value is
the sum of memory
assigned to the
standby (cached),
free, and zero-paged
lists.
< 50 megabytes
(MB).
Indicates low
memory on DPM
server.
• One or more
applications are
consuming large
amounts of memory.
• Multiple DPM jobs
are running
simultaneously.
• The DPM server
does not have
sufficient memory to
handle the current
DPM workload.
Processor: %
Processor Time
Measures the
percentage of time the
processor was busy
during the sampling
interval.
> 95% for more than
10 minutes.
Indicates very high
CPU usage on the
DPM server.
• Multiple DPM jobs
are running
simultaneously.
Synchronization with
consistency check
jobs are particularly
CPU-intensive.
• On-the-wire
compression has
been enabled on the
DPM server. On-the-
wire compression
allows faster data
throughput without
negatively affecting
network
performance.
However, it places a