On the Blackbaud application start page, click Utilities. The Utilities, Gadgets and Reference page appears.
Under ClickOnce Utilities, click Blackbaud WebEvent Profiler.
The utility downloads, and a security warning confirms that you want to run the application. Click Run. The Blackbaud AppFx WMI WebHealth Monitor appears.
To select the web server to monitor, click Click here to select Web Server.
To monitor the web server with the WebEvent Profiler utility, you must have administrator rights on the Application Server.
To only monitor events generated by the Application Server, select Only trace BBAppFx events.
Click Start. The utility begins to monitor the web server.
On the Activity tab, you can view several diagnostic measures.
The Request Activity frame is modeled after the blinking bulbs on a network switch. You can view this panel to get a feel for the rate of activity on your server for each event type. For example, if the Access Denied bulb blinks steadily, a problem probably exists somewhere in the program. Beside the bulb is a running counter with the number of detected events. The warning and error icons display tooltips of the message in the last event of that type.
Under Heartbeat, the bulb is green or red. The heartbeat queries the web server and verifies it is responding. If the bulb is red, a heartbeat has not been detected and is considered overdue. Note that you have to route the heartbeat event and also match the Interval in the panel to the <healthMonitoring> heartbeatInterval attribute in order for this panel to be meaningful.
In the Web Server CPU Warning Indicator, ASP.Net Requests Executing, and ASP.Net Requests in Application Queue frames, you can use the sliders to set thresholds for what you consider to be normal values for the counters. If the value of a counter ever exceeds the threshold, the gauge trips, turns yellow, and displays the time it was tripped.
To reset the gauge, click on the message that appears. The gauges use standard Windows Performance Counters checked at the interval you select under Performance Counter Interval.
On the Events tab, information appears about each WebEvent that the utility detects, including the user who initiated the request that triggered the event.
To stop monitoring the web server, click Stop.