Question : Monitoring 3rd party plug-in

Hello

I have a group of Windows 2003 SP2 servers running ApplicationA - example is server1.company.com.  The application speaks to a 3rd party server on the internet - Vendor1.vendor.com.  In our network, we have a gateway for ApplicationA to route data between - appAgateway.company.com.

The vendor has given us a small application that we can run on server1.company.com which allows it to go direct to the Internet to speak with Vendor1.vendor.com, thus doing away with the need for appAgateway.company.com

I want to test this out to ensure that it doesn't affect server1.company.com in any negative manner. I'm sure it will be fine, but better to be safe :)

I was thinking of :

1. Running perfmon on a server now to capture key stats before the change
2. Install the application on server1.company.com and run perfmon again
3. Compare the two perfmon results

Basically, I want to measure stuff like CPU, memory utilisation, disk utilisation, excessive load on the NIC's, that sort of thing.

Can anyone think of anything else that maybe useful to measure?

Answer : Monitoring 3rd party plug-in

ok, I got it working

SELECT
<output name="year" replace="(YEAR(t.time))" />AS year,
<output name="month" replace="(MONTHNAME(t.time))" chart="k" />AS month,
<output name="invoice" replace="(SUM(t.invoice))" chart="l" data="float" />AS invoice,
<output name="payments" replace="(SUM(t.payment))" chart="l" data="float" />AS payments,
<output name="lights" replace="CAST((SUM(service)) AS Decimal(8,2))" chart="d" data="float" />AS lights,
<output name="lights2" replace="CAST((SUM(service2)) AS Decimal(8,2))" chart="d" data="float" />AS lights2,
<output name="hose" replace="CAST((SUM(hose)) AS Decimal(8,2))" chart="d" data="float" />AS hose
FROM transac t
LEFT JOIN (SELECT v.datetime AS datetime, (v.quantity * s.charges) AS service FROM invitem v LEFT JOIN service s ON s.idservice = v.idservice WHERE s.idservice = 'PARTS-LIGHTS-VBFG-2' GROUP BY v.datetime) z ON z.datetime = t.time
LEFT JOIN (SELECT v.datetime AS datetime, (v.quantity * s.charges) AS service2 FROM invitem v LEFT JOIN service s ON s.idservice = v.idservice WHERE s.idservice = 'PARTS-LIGHT-FGRT-1' GROUP BY v.datetime) y ON y.datetime = t.time
LEFT JOIN (SELECT v.datetime AS datetime, (v.quantity * s.charges) AS hose FROM invitem v LEFT JOIN service s ON s.idservice = v.idservice WHERE s.idservice = 'UTILSRUBBERHOSE657' GROUP BY v.datetime) w ON w.datetime = t.time
WHERE DATE(time) between 'a year ago' AND DATE(NOW())
GROUP BY MONTHNAME(t.time)