1.3 Overview

The Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) Protocol provides tools for managing processor and memory resources on a computer. With WSRM, administrators can control how CPU resources are allocated to applications, services, and processes, and prevent applications from consuming more than their share, thereby preventing one application from starving other applications of CPU resources and memory.

WSRM policies can be applied according to a date/time schedule. This allows administrators to free up the CPU and memory for maintenance applications during nonpeak hours and for mission-critical applications during peak hours.

The WSRM accounting feature allows administrators to generate, store, view, and export resource utilization reports for systems management, as well as service-level agreement tracking and billing information.

WSRM exposes a set of DCOM Protocol [MS-DCOM] interfaces that perform the following functions:

• Resource Management: Performs administrative tasks and retrieves system information from the computer being managed.

• Accounting Management: Performs configuration tasks on accounting data, including the following:

  • Specifying the database server.

  • Changing the location of database files.

  • Controlling how often the server creates accounting records.

  • Managing accounting data records.

• Calendar Management: Schedules resource management operations.

• Configuration: Manages the global configuration of server resources.

• Machine Group Management: Creates, manages, and deletes machine groups.

• Object Management: Imports and exports objects with smart import-conflict resolution.

• Policy Management: Creates, edits, enumerates, and deletes objects that control the allocation of resources to user tasks.

• Protocol Management: Manages client versions supported on the server.

• Remote Session Management: Manages CPU quota allocation to different remote sessions.

• Resource Group Management: Retrieves, modifies, and deletes resource groups.