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Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2019 Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789808537
Length 542 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Preface 1. Establishing a PowerShell Administrative Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Managing Windows Networking 3. Managing Windows Active Directory 4. Managing Windows Storage 5. Managing Shared Data 6. Managing Windows Update 7. Managing Printing 8. Introducing Containers 9. Managing Windows Internet Information Server 10. Managing Desired State Configuration 11. Managing Hyper-V 12. Managing Azure 13. Managing Performance and Usage 14. Troubleshooting Windows Server Index

Generating a performance-monitoring graph

In the Reporting on performance data recipe, you saw how you could take the data logged by a PLA data collector set and create a performance report. The report in that recipe showed CPU utilization of SRV1. That output is in the form of a table and is a summary of the performance of the server.

Another way to view the performance data is in the form of a graph. PowerShell does not have direct cmdlet support for displaying rich graphs, but the .NET Framework's System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization namespace does.

This recipe uses the data visualization's Chart object to create a chart and save it as a Portable Network Graphic (PNG) file. You then display the graphic on your workstation.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on SRV1. This recipe uses the output of the PLA data collector set similar to the one you created and started in the Creating and using PLA data collector sets recipe. Note that the input to this recipe is a CSV file produced...

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