Monitoring Windows Servers through script - scripting

Question

I need to monitor the CPU and the memory usage in windows servers when executing performance tests on them but I need them to be via script.
In Unix systems, I have the scripts and, for example, to monitor the cpu, I use this line:
cpuPerc=$(top -n 1 -b|grep Cpu|awk '{print $2}'|cut -d"%" -f1"")
And then, I send it to a file or to terminal with an echo.
Thanks.

Answer 1

If you want to do it with powershell you can see an simple example here : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee872428.aspx
If you are on a localised windows (not english), you will have to get the correct counter name before.
For example in my french windows version it will be :
Get-counter -ListSet *
this will display all the available counterset. I can see there is a set named "processeur" wich is the french word for CPU. So now i can get the available counter for this set like this:
Get-counter -ListSet "processeur" |select -expand counter
it gives me the result :
PS>Get-counter -ListSet "processeur" |select -expand counter
\Processeur(*)\% temps processeur
\Processeur(*)\% temps utilisateur
\Processeur(*)\% temps privilégié
\Processeur(*)\Interruptions/s
\Processeur(*)\% temps DPC
\Processeur(*)\% temps d'interruption
\Processeur(*)\DPC mis en file d'attente/s
\Processeur(*)\Taux DPC
\Processeur(*)\% d'inactivité
\Processeur(*)\% durée C1
\Processeur(*)\% durée C2
\Processeur(*)\% durée C3
\Processeur(*)\Transitions C1/s
\Processeur(*)\Transitions C2/s
\Processeur(*)\Transitions C3/s
Now I can use one or more of these counter like this :
get all the counters : Get-counter -ListSet "processeur" |select -expand counter | foreach{ get-counter $_ -SampleInterval 2 -MaxSamples 10}
get inactivity counter : Get-counter -ListSet "processeur" |select -expand counter |where {$_ -match "inactivité"} | foreach{ get-counter $_ -SampleInterval 2 -MaxSamples 10}
At least, you can pipe the result to export-counter in order to save it to a file (CSV, TSV, or BLG).
Hope that's help