Technical articles, guides, and tutorials for LizardSystems software products.
Terminal Services Manager 26.03 is out. Redesigned interface with Dark Mode, RDP connection quality monitoring per session, 11 new server metrics with interactive charts, advanced filtering on all tabs, and over 130 administrative commands.
Terminal servers play a critical role in providing remote access to corporate resources. However, as the number of connections and server load increases, performance issues can arise, negatively impacting user productivity. In this article, we’ll explore how to effectively monitor and analyze terminal server performance using LizardSystems Terminal Services Manager, along with practical tips and examples to optimize your environment.
LizardSystems Remote Process Explorer is a powerful tool designed to monitor and manage processes running on remote computers. With its user-friendly interface and advanced features, it simplifies the process of managing processes on multiple computers from a single location. In this comprehensive guide, we will discuss the technical details of using LizardSystems Remote Process Explorer, including system requirements, installation, and how to effectively monitor and manage processes on remote computers.
The tsadmin.msc snap-in shipped through Windows Server 2008 R2 and is not part of Windows Server 2012 or later. Here is where session management went, which commands replace it, and what the replacements cannot do.
Terminal Services Manager uses WTS API, but utilizes Perfmon counters for monitoring CPU usage and Available Memory. If you have empty value for CPU usage and Available Memory, but the rest of your data is stable, then it is likely there is an issue with Perfmon on the monitored server.
This article gives a quick start into Remote Process explorer, so you can start monitoring a remote computers right away!
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is the management technology for Windows based systems. Remote Process Explorer uses WMI for enumerating processes on the remote server. You can use WBEMTest to troubleshoot Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). WBEMTest is included on every computer that has WMI installed.
Windows Task Manager has no option to connect to another computer. Here are the ways that actually work: tasklist and taskkill, PowerShell and WMI, RDP, and a GUI remote Task Manager.