Cisco Unified MeetingPlace

Document ID: 62495

Contents

Introduction
Prerequisites
      Requirements
      Components Used
      Conventions
Configure the perfmon.exe Utility to Save Performance Data to a File
Appendix A: MeetingPlace Web Performance Counters
Appendix B: Review Data Saved in the perfmon Counter Log
Appendix C: View perfmon Data in Real-time
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Introduction

Cisco MeetingPlace Web provides a performance object called MeetingPlace Web Conferencing, which contains a set of performance counters that can be monitored in the Windows performance-monitoring tool.

For the complete list of Cisco MeetingPlace Web performance counters, see Appendix A of this document or refer to the appropriate chapter in the System Manager's Guide. For the procedure to review data saved in a perfmon log, see Appendix B of this document. For the procedure to view perfmon data in real-time, see Appendix C of this document or refer to the appropriate chapter in the System Manager's Guide.

For more information on the Performance Monitor utility, search the Microsoft web site with the keywords performance monitor.

Prerequisites

Requirements

There are no specific requirements for this document.

Components Used

The information in this document is based on Cisco MeetingPlace Web 4.0 (Releases 4.3.0.63 and later).

The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.

Conventions

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Configure the perfmon.exe Utility to Save Performance Data to a File

Complete these steps:

1. Choose Start > Run. Enter perfmon in the dialogue box. The perfmon application user interface (UI) appears.

2. Expand Performance Logs and Alerts, right-click on Counter Logs, and choose New Log Settings to create a new log file. You can then configure this log file to monitor any performance counters you want. In this example, a log called MPWeb-perfmon is created.

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3. The perfmon counter log configuration UI appears. It has three tabs: the General tab, the Log Files tab, and the Schedule tab. Click Add to begin to add the desired counters.

   

4. From the Performance object drop-down menu, select MeetingPlace Web Conferencing. Once you have selected a performance object, a list of counters that belongs to that performance object appears inside the counter list box. Some counters may contain sub-objects called “instances.” If a counter you selected contains instances, they appear inside the instances list box.

   

5. For more information about a specific counter, select it and click Explain. To enable a specific counter or instance, select it and click Add.

   Note: You do not see the list of counters and instances you added until you close the Add Counters window.

6. Repeat the process in Steps 4 and 5 to add other counters. This is a list of recommended counters to monitor on a Cisco MeetingPlace Web server:

   • MeetingPlace Web Conferencing

     • MPAgent: Total client connections in MPAgent

     • MPX: Active MPX threads

     • MPX: Total server busy messages

     • MPX: Total attends

     • MPX: Total queries to MPX

     • MPX: Total schedules

   • Memory

     • Available memory in MB

   • Network Interface

     • Bytes Received/sec (on the NIC that the Cisco MeetingPlace Web site uses)

     • Bytes Sent/sec (on the NIC that the Cisco MeetingPlace Web site uses)

   • Processor

     • _Total

     • CPU0

     • CPU1

   • Process

     • %Process Time

       • dcx500 (only if you use Cisco MeetingPlace Directory Service Gateway)

       • dllhost

       • inetinfo

       • mpagent

       • gccd

       • gwsvc

       • mcsd

       • mpaudsvc

       • mpdatsvc

       • mpconvert

       • sqlservr

   • SQL Server: General Statistics

     • User connections

   • TCP

     • Segments Retransmitted/sec

7. When you have added all of the counters you wish, click Close.

8. Set the Sample data every parameter to a one-second interval. It is necessary to sample data with very short intervals because with longer intervals, you may not accurately capture the performance events associated with Cisco MeetingPlace Web activities.

   Note: A typical 24-hour perfmon log that monitors the recommended list of counters at a one-second interval has a file size of about 110 MB.

   

9. Click the Log Files tab to configure these parameters:

   • Set Location to a desired file storage location.

   • From the End file names with drop-down menu, select the desired filename format.

   • From the Log file typedrop-down menu, select Binary File.

   

10. If you want to set up this perfmon log to occur at a scheduled date and time or as a repetitive task, click the Schedule tab and configure it with the appropriate values.

    

Appendix A: MeetingPlace Web Performance Counters

Appendix B: Review Data Saved in the perfmon Counter Log

Complete these steps:

1. Open the perfmon utility.

2. On the toolbar, click the View Log File Data button.

3. Go to the folder where your perfmon log files are stored. Select the file you want to review and click Open.

   

4. On the toolbar, click the Add tool button to add a counter to the graph, or select any existing counter from the list below the graph and click the Delete tool button to delete it from the graph.

5. The Performance window now displays the counters you specified.

   

Appendix C: View perfmon Data in Real-time

Complete these steps:

1. Open the perfmon utility.

2. On the toolbar, click the Add tool button to add a counter to the graph, or select any existing counter from the list below the graph and click the Delete tool button to delete it from the graph.

3. The Performance window now displays the counters you specified.

   

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