Conclusion

You should now have a good understanding of how you can use ATL Server Perfmon support to enhance your applications. Weve covered not only the features that make Perfmon attractive, but also how to incorporate Perfmon usage into an ATL Server application by exposing it from your ISAPI DLL.

Perfmon is a general system for monitoring any applications, not just Web applications. Therefore, its important to remember that you can use ATL Servers Perfmon support in any application that you create. Having seen the samples exposing Perfmon support from an ISAPI DLL in this chapter, it should be clear to you how to enable any existing application (or new application) with Perfmon functionality.

So far weve focused on ATL Server infrastructure and the Web application features of ATL Server. In the next chapter well introduce you to the ATL Server support for Web services. Web services enable your application to expose and consume method calls over the Internet.