IIS Pools

Network administrators who handle their websites or applications using IIS 6.0 or later might require a tool for analyzing the allocated resources consumption.

IIS Pools is a utility that was developed in order to monitor IIS application pools and store the recorded data in log files. By using the features provided by it, users will be able to determine whether there are websites or virtual applications that are using too much resources.

The application will allow people to monitor and log the CPU and RAM usage, but they must take notice that the auto-analysis is provided only for the CPU usage. They must run the application with administrative rights, as it will need to be able to manage IIS.

Users will benefit from a three-step process, which is deployed by the application in order to achieve the final analysis results: logging (the utility will log date and time, application pool name, number of applications in pool, RAM / CPU usage, etc.), monitoring (display of websites names and ASP.NET version) and pool analysis (it will use a pool analysis algorithm for determining the problematic areas).

The working principle upon which IIS Pools functions is the deployment of temporary application pools where it will distribute the websites and virtual applications, one-by-one. When some of the pools exceed the established RAM / CPU usage, the application will create a corresponding record in the log file.

The developer advises people not to start monitoring pools that contain numerous applications, since it may result in the application exhibiting a sluggish behavior due to the increased data retrieval time.