Windows server performance monitoring with WMI : An extension to System Monitor

Technological advancements and digitalization opens up a whole new set of opportunities for manufacturing industries to improve and enhance their effectiveness. As the importance of IT grows in the industry so does the complexity of the systems they use. This requires a countermeasure. IT systems need to be managed and monitored and thus rises the need for tools to perform this task in a swift and effective manner. Because when a plant stands still, time is money.This thesis describes the development of an extension to System Monitor which is used by the company ÅF. System Monitor is a system and troubleshooting tool to monitor the manufacturing execution system PaperLine.System Monitor consists of a service that collects data from PaperLine and its servers, a database for storing the collected data and a web client for presenting the data to the user. The result of the project is an improved version of System Monitor with means to collect and display performance data from servers running on the windows server operating system. In addition general improvements have been made and bugs have been dealt with. The project has been a success for both the author and ÅF