Mini Blog: Checking processor performance

Kelvin Tegelaar | 20 Mar, 2017 | 1 Mins Read

I haven’t been blogging alot lately, mostly due to renovating at home and having very large projects in the office. To compensate I’ve decided to write some quick mini blogs to make sure I don’t lose the magic 🙂

I’ve found with some application monitoring I’ve been setting up it was required to make a quick snapshot of how heavy the processor was being used during my scripts, as the application made some SQL queries it could create spikes in the CPU that I wanted to avoid.

To take a quick snapshot of the current values of the processor status, I’ve used the get-counter cmdlet and retrieved the cooked value of this to query it further;


$CPUQueueLength = (get-counter -counter "\System\Processor Queue Length").countersamples.cookedvalue

$CPUUSerTime = (get-counter -counter "\Processor(*)\% User Time").countersamples.cookedvalue

$CPUPrivTime = (get-counter -counter "\Processor(*)\% Privileged Time").countersamples.cookedvalue

Happy scripting 🙂

CyberDrain CTF returns! (and so do I!)

It’s been since september that I actually picked up a digital pen equivalent and wrote anything down. This was due to me being busy with life but also my side projects like CIPP. I’m trying to get back into the game of scripting and blogging about these scripts. There’s still so much to automate and so little time, right? ;)

Intro

This is a monitoring script requested via Reddit, One of the reddit r/msp users wondered how they can monitor Acronis a little bit easier. I jumped on this because it happened pretty much at the same time that I was asked to speak at the Acronis CyberSummit so it kinda made sense to script this so I have something to demonstrate at my session there.

Intro

Wow! It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. I’ve just been so swamped with CIPP that I’ve just let the blogging go entirely. It’s a shame because I think out of all my hobbies it’s one I enjoy the most. It’s always nice helping others achieve their scripting target. I even got a couple of LinkedIn questions asking if I was done with blogging but I’m not. Writing always gives me some more piece of mind so I’ll try to catch up again. I know I’ve said that before but this time I’ll follow through. I’m sitting down right now and scheduling the release of 5 blogs in one go. No more whining and no more waiting.