The Task Manager is a perfect utility to monitor your Server Core in a way that has been familiar since Windows 95. I've taken a closer look at monitoring Server Core boxes from the command line and want to share my experiences with you on this matter today. Monitoring it gives clues towards this behavior and/or provides insight in why it behaves flaky. General code refactoring (merge pieces of code, so there is no more VB.A server running a Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 could behave flaky from time to time.High general optimisations (reduced CPU usage by ~70%).

For remote monitoring, WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) must be installed and available on both machines if you use WMI method, or the YAPM Server application must be started on the remote machine if you use the client-server method.Administrator rights, if you want to access to system processes and some other informations.Operating system : Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows Seven (32 bits only).Hidden Processes feature to detect basic rootkits.'Log mode' to monitor all actions made by a specific process.Build-in hex editor to view memory of processes.Privilege management : allows to view and modify the privileges of processes.Emergency Hotkeys feature : allows to associate a custom shortcut to a custom action (for example : Ctrl+Shift+Suppr to close the window which is on foreground).Window' find' process feature : allows to find the process associated to a window via a drag & drop over the screen.Windows management (opacity, position, show, hide.).View of TCP/UDP connections opened by the processes.In addition to all basic features available with the standard Windows Task Manager, YAPM offers lots of other useful features: YAPM offers an user-friendly GUI with Microsoft Office Ribbon style, or a classical menu-based GUI if you don't like the Ribbon style :-) YAPM also can save advanced reports of your system (HTML or TXT files). You are also able to monitor all Windows perfmon counters (local or remote machine) with an advanced time scale. It's totally free and open source (GNU GPL 3.0). It is the first and only open source software to offer all these features. YAPM offers lots of features to manipulate them, such as privilege management, memory management, a complete history of statistics, a dependency viewer.

Yet Another (remote) Process Monitor (YAPM) is a powerful application that allows to view and manage your running tasks, processes, threads, modules, windows, handles, network connections and your services on a local or on a remote machine.

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