Monitoring performance

There are many different methods that you can use to monitor the performance of your Windows Media server.

Monitor tab. This tab is available for both the server itself and for each publishing point on the server. It provides a general overview of the activity on the server or publishing point. For more information, see About the Monitor tab for a server and About the Monitor tab for a publishing point.
Windows Performance Monitor. This feature, accessible from the Monitor tab, provides a graphical view of several different performance counters. It can be customized to display the statistics that are most important in your system. For more information, see Using Windows Media performance counters.
SNMP object monitoring. Windows Media Services provides extensive support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) objects and traps. For more information, see About the Windows Media SNMP objects.
WMI event monitoring. Windows Media Services is a fully extensible Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) provider. Your WMI monitoring application can subscribe to WMI events from Windows Media Services in the same way that it uses events from other providers. For more information, see Subscribing to Windows Media WMI events.

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The default settings for SNMP service access in Windows Server 2003 prevent unauthorized access to your server. If you are using SNMP to monitor a local server, you do not need to change the SNMP service settings. If you plan to use SNMP objects to monitor your server from another computer, you must authorize remote access to your SNMP service by configuring the SNMP Services Properties settings on the Windows Media server to accept SNMP packets from the remote computer that you want to use to monitor the Windows Media server.