There are a number of ways to configure monitoring and consume monitoring information with Windows Server AppFabric. As covered by the recipes in this chapter, you can configure monitoring with the Windows Server AppFabric configuration tool in IIS and use IIS-based Windows Server AppFabric features, including the AppFabric Dashboard and Tracked Events viewer to consume monitoring events and information.
These capabilities are great for managing monitoring configuration aspects interactively, but Windows Server AppFabric also supports the ability to automate monitoring configuration while providing a user experience that system administrators or IT Pros are most comfortable with.
In this recipe, we will cover the most common Windows Powershell cmdlets for configuring monitoring for Windows Server AppFabric applications.