Monitor Terminal Server session Bandwidth usage

[coza2eire]

Hi All,

I am trying to pin down how much bandwidth is being used in a terminal server session.
Basically I would like to see how much bandwidth is consumed in a specific Ternial Server session and then obviously be able to visualise this usage by means of a graph.

My initial thoughts would be to try extract this by means of perfmon against the terminal server.
In all honesty, I have not yet tried this (although once I have finish this post, I'll give it a go and provide any feedback on my success or failures) but I might as well not re-invent the wheel if theres already a better way of doing this you know.

If anyone has tried something like this before, I would very much appreciate any suggestions as to a better way of doing this.

I'll also post any progress I make with perfmon.

Thanks,

Luis

[coza2eire]

TS Sessions Bandwidth usage

Hi All,

I have this working fine with perf_counter.
I have attached image of HOST config for anyone else interested in configuring this item.

Note that I have not set a "Custom Multiplier" as I have set the "unit" = Bps and because windows is already presenting the data in Bytes, I have no need to add a multiplier for the output.
You could of course, depending on your requirements, reduce the history value to say 7 days or what ever you need it to be set to. The lower the history value, the smaller your database table will be.

Keys Used:
perf_counter["\Terminal Services Session(RDP-Tcp 0)\Input Bytes"]
perf_counter["\Terminal Services Session(RDP-Tcp 0)\Output Bytes"]

Again, Im open to suggestions for doing this better if anyone knows of an alternative way of doing this.

Cheers,

Luis.