README

About

Windows OS Performance Data Collector Command Line Tool

Notes

Download the code from https://github.com/syuaip/rpdcli

Download the binary from this github release section, or from https://github.com/syuaip/SQLHC/releases/download/SQLHC/rditools.zip

For these releases, binary was compiled with Delphi 7.0 Ultimate 4.453 on top of Windows XP VM.

Purpose

Tools for Windows Performance Data Collector Setup, Ops and Cleaning Up

How-to-use

1. Copy RPDCLI.exe (or RPDCLI.ps1) to the Windows box which performance data is to be collected

2. Put it on a working directory with enough disk space, e.g. C:\PerfmonData

3. Open an elevated Windows command prompt

4. Change command prompt directory to the C:\PerfmonData directory

5. Run rpdcli -1 to register data collector

6. Run rpdcli -2 to start the data collector

7. Let it running while the Windows box is having a load. If you have a performance issue, reproduce your issue in this step.

8. Run rpdcli -3 to stop the data collector (or run rpdcli -3 -debug to keep temp files of the data collector)

9. Check the collected performance data file (a file with .BLG file extension) by:

   a. either analyze it manually using Perfmon tool

   b. or by checking the report.html file (from step #8 with -debug enabled) using a web browser

   c. or checking the BLG file using PAL tool https://github.com/clinthuffman/PAL

10. Run rpdcli -4 to remove the data collector.

How-to-use (video)

https://youtu.be/d8xz5r_b0sQ