Quest Software has allot of great products on the market. As a windows administrator we are always looking for great tools to help us troubleshoot problems quickly. The FREE tool called spotlight on windows does a great job at finding the bottleneck on servers. No matter what your experience level you have, this tool will help you. The graphical interface gives you a quick snapshot of what the server is currently doing. Some of the things it shows is network utilization, cpu utilization, physical memory utilization, and disk capacity. If there is an issue the area will turn either orange or red depending on how bad the problem is. Another nice feature is you can drill down into each individual area and get more information. Each drill down area provides and explanation of exactly what you are looking at. I do have to warn you that this tool can become addictive because of all the information it can provide in a quick snapshot. You can download the program directly from the quest software site. I strongly urge you to at least download and try it out. I think you will learn quickly that this tool can make you look like genius.
Quest Software – Spotlight On Windows
http://www.quest.com/spotlight-on-windows/
