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How to use Perfmon to monitor Windows 2003 server?

Hi Experts,

I have administartor rights in one of my clients Windows 2003 Server in which they have hosted a web applicaion, Now the performance of this server is slow, so I just wanted to montior the performance of this server using perfmon, and then wants to collect the data and create a graphical representation to the client.

How can I do this?, Please help.

many thanks
Dileep.

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I added some counters and tried to start it but I am getting the following error message, PFA to see the details of the message
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The service was unable to open the log file D:\perflog\smf_2010081523.csv for log smf and will be stopped. Check the log folder for existence, spelling, permissions, and ensure that no other logs or applications are writing to this log file. You can reenter the log file name using the configuration program. This log will not be started. The error returned is: Unable to create the specified log file.
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thnx experts