Insight really shines in reporting. Options range from the most comprehensive reporting, which provides an almost overwhelming amount of information, to highly filtered information based on your settings. You can obtain reports in log format or HTML.
After setting the filters for timing issues, apps and service failures, I deliberately mucked up a group policy to create an imaginary conflict. Insight detected the problem almost immediately and advised me of it in the primary viewer window.
Network utilization remained low throughout testing. NIC usage between the observer workstation and the Windows 2000 box routinely stayed below a svelte 0.05 percent during most activities. The same was true for CPU usage. I easily monitored many remote systems from a modestly configured workstation without taxing the CPU or network.
Winternals says Insight is particularly useful in an environment migrating from, say, Windows 2000 to 2003. I couldn't agree more.
John Shireley is the communications director for Helios Software. Write to him at [email protected].
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