I am trying to figure out how to apply email notifications to system performance triggers for example high CPU, High RAM usage, low disk space etc.
I have tried googling it but I am unable to find a guide which walks to through doing this, as I haven't done this before.
Is Windows 2008 R2 capable of doing this or is third party software required?
Best Answer
Typically this is split into 2 components:
1) an agent (or agents) which gather the information
2) a processing hub for collating the data and optionally scheduling invocation
There's no end of vendors and products available for this - I use Nagios as it's designed to integrate with all sorts of probes using a very transparent and simple API, there are lots of probes available off the shelf and its available under an open-source licence.