Chapter 9

Monitoring and Optimizing ISA Server Performance

About This Chapter

Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000 (ISA Server) includes many tools for monitoring, optimizing, and tuning performance. Alerts, logs, and reports can all be configured through the Monitoring Configuration node in ISA Management. In addition, bandwidth rules allow you to control and optimize the performance of connections passing through ISA Server by assigning priorities for specific traffic based on any criteria you specify. ISA Server performance can also be tuned according to the number of expected daily connections, and the cache performance can be optimized by adjusting the amount of RAM used to store Web content. Finally, ISA Server includes many performance objects and counters that you may use to monitor very specific activity either in real time or through the use of reports, logs, and alerts in the Windows 2000 Performance console.

Before You Begin

To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must have

Completed the setup procedures described in "About This Book"

Completed all exercises through Chapter 8