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| A trigger event that is generated when a specific counter exceeds or falls below a specified value. |
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| A technology that allows an administrator to limit how much network bandwith can be used by a given website. |
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| A definition of what a normal load looks like on a computer system; it provides a point of comparison against which you can measure future system behavior. |
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| A system resource or device that limits a system's performance. Ideally the user should be the bottleneck on a system, not any hardware or software component. |
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| A named aspect or activity that the Performance tool uses to measure or monitor some aspects of a registered system or application object. |
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| A log file that records data about hardware usage and the activity of system services. |
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| A drive configuration of two or more parts (up to 32) of one or more drives or two or more entire drives (up to 32). Data is written to all drives in equal amounts to spread the workload and improve performance. Each part or drive must be roughly equal in size and it does not provide any fault tolerance - if one drive fails, all data is lost. |
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| The default view with System Monitor, displays information in a graphical format. |
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| Displays data in System Monitor in a bar graph form. Useful for viewing large amounts of data. |
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| A special server used with Terminal Services that distributes and accounts for Terminal Services licenses to Terminal Services clients. |
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| The software interface between the physical printer (print device) and the operating system. Referred to as just a printer in Windows. |
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| An expansion card that enables a PC to physically link to a network. |
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| Performance Logs and Alerts |
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| A tool included with Windows Server 2008 that enables you to create counter logs, trace logs, and configure alerts. |
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| Specific resources in a Windows 2008 Server that can affect system performance. For example: Paging File, Memory and processor. |
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| Files that contain information that Windows 2008 use's to convert raw print commands to a language that the printer understands. |
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| The software interface between the physical printer (print device) and the operating system. |
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| Configuring multiple logical prints to print to the same print device. One printer is then configured to print before other printers by adjusting the priority setting from 1 (lowest level) to 99 (highest level). |
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| A method of associating multiple print devices with a single logical printer. |
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| Remote Desktop for Administration Mode |
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| A Terminal Services mode that allows administrators to perform administrative task on remote servers and clients from a centralized console. |
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| Used by System Monitor to display counters in a logical report in real-time. |
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| A tool used to view the processes and applications currently running on a system. Also provides basic resource usage statistics. |
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| A Windows Server 2008 feature that allows users to connect to a Windows Server 2008 system and interact with applications as if sitting at the server console. |
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| Devices with simple hardware configuration, often legacy desktops, which lack the hardware resources to run the latest Microsoft Windows operating system or applications. |
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| A log that measures data continuously as opposed to measuring data through periodic samples. |
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| A collection of Windows DLLs used to acquire, process, catalog, and dispense print jobs to print devices. It acts like a holding tank; it manages an area on the printer server hard disk where pending print jobs are stored until they've been output. |
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