Clint Huffman On PowerScripting Podcast

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Jan 112010
 

PowerScripting Podcast had Clint Huffman on their show last week.  The final recording was put up last night and now can be listened to.  Clint did a great job talking about the PAL tool that he ported over to PowerShell version 2.0.  The interview goes into how Clint did it and some of the roadblocks he ran into.  Clint also hinted that the next beta version of PAL should be out in the near future.  Clint also briefly talked about how you can do some IIS log analysis but is not part of PAL yet.   Clint did take the time to talk about this on his blog.  Check out the links below and if you are not a current user of PAL you should check it out.

PowerScripting Podcast
http://powerscripting.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/episode-97-clint-huffman-and-his-pal-project/

Clint Huffman’s Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/clinth/

Pal On Codeplex
http://pal.codeplex.com/

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Relog Allows You To Change File Formats

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Nov 232009
 

When you collect performance data from perfmon you have a choice to save the file as a certain format.  The most common format I run across  is .blg.  This format works great when you looking at the performance data through perfmon.  Sometimes though it would be nice to pull this data into excel or another program in order to manipulate the data.  This is were the program from Microsoft called Relog can be used.  It has to be run from the command prompt.  Below is the command that would need to be run in order to convert a .blg file to a .csv file.  The process is quick and easy.

relog filname.blg -f CSV -o newfile.csv


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PAL 2.0 Alpha Released

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Nov 022009
 

Today PAL 2.0 Alpha was released over on Codeplex.  With this release PAL 2.0 will use PowerShell instead of VB Script.  Another main thing that you will see in PAL 2.0 is the graphs that are included inside the reports that can are generated.   Clint uses the power of the .net 3.5 chart controls to generate the new graphs.   Not only did the charts get a face lift they also use all of the data points.  Another feature of the charts is that they include visual thresholds so you can quickly analyze the data.  So if you are familiar with PowerShell and command line usage go over and download the Alpha version of PAL 2.0.  Please report any errors you might encounter to the codeplex website to help improve future versions.

Pal Codeplex Site
http://pal.codeplex.com

Pal Codeplex Issue Tracker
http://pal.codeplex.com/WorkItem/List.aspx

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