About the Tools
TMurgent makes some of our favorite tools that were developed here in-house available
to our closest friends. Since you are here, you make the "A-List"!
These tools are generally free for you to download and use. See specific Copyright
information on each, as some have restrictions for certain classes of folks. You
will see things like "free for use by consultants and enterprises, but ISVs must
purchase a license".
App-V Related
- App-V 5+ Tools
- A segregated List of all TMurgent Tools for App-V 5 is now available.
- App-V 4 Tools
- A segregated List of all TMurgent Tools for App-V 4.* is now available.
Performance Related
- Performance Tools
- A segregated List of all TMurgent Performance Tools is now available.
Network Related
- Network Simulation Tool
- This is a demo of TMNetSim:
- TMNetSim 2.04 Zip File: 32-bit version
TMNetSim 2.04 Zip File: X64 version
- Network Stress Tool
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PingTool 2.0.0.2 Zip File: PingTool, a packet generating tool for Ping and other protocols to generate well known traffic patterns.
HyperV Performance
- Updated Version 3.0.1 and Documentation Sept 22, 2012
- The FREE HyperV_Mon tool
helps you to understand Performance characteristics in a Hyper-V world.
- HyperV_Mon monitors physical, logical, and virtual performance information that is available
when running virtual machines under Microsoft Hyper-V.
The graphical display is organized to help easily understand the CPU performaces being experienced.
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Detailed text displays also help highlight other performance issues such as memory, paging, and I/O.
Additional information is provided about virtualization "overhead" that is detected within the VMs.
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Newly updated to support Hyper-V R1, R2, and R3 (Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8); requires .Net 4.0.
- PDF: Documentation for HyperV_Mon
- This is the documentation for the toolkit itself with license information (it is free).
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Download the file as a ZIP of 3.0.1 (no installer needed).
Perceived Performance
The Perceived Performance Toolkit for Citrix and Native Terminal Servers
helps you to set-up tests and measure end-user performance in a Terminal Server or
Citrix environment. With this toolkit you can easily create Perceived Performance
Graphs and Profiles of your environment like you see in my Perceived Performance
White Papers and seminars.
- PDF: Documentation for Perceived Performance Toolkit
- This is the documentation for the toolkit itself.
- ZIP: Package Version 1.7 (986KB)
- Latest version of Perceived Performance Toolkit.
- ZIP: package Version 1.6 (893KB)
- An earlier version.
- ZIP: package Version 1.2 (766KB)
- The original posted version, used in briForum 2005.
LaunchTimeAnalyze New October 2011
- An updated tool to measure Perceived Performance.
See the LTA page for details and download.
Tool Crib
The "Tool Crib" is a collection of tools I use in my lab to simulate bad software experiences.
These applications each exhibit a specific type of inappropriate application behavior
that you might see happen in real applications out in the wild.
This can be useful with the Perceived Performance Toolkit, or if you are trying to test some
management software that is supposed to tell you when bad things like this happen.
- ZIP: 32-bit ToolCrib May 22, 2006 version (4MB)
- An update to the 32-bit version.
- ZIP: 64-bit ToolCrib May 22, 2006 version (4MB)
- An update to the 64-bit version.
- ZIP: 32-bit ToolCrib April 1, 2006 version (3MB)
- Original 32-bit version, also contained in the Perceived Performance Toolkit.
- ZIP: 64-bit ToolCrib April 1, 2006 version (3MB)
- Original 64-bit version.
Other Tools
Some of these tools are also in the ToolCrib. A few are not, or may be more up-to-date here.
- ATM dated October 1, 2012 (1.5MBB )
- Investigate OS System Cache and the 8 Standby lists in RAM. Monitors cache usage and effectiveness. Also exposes
SuperFetch impact on your system under Vista, Windows 7/8, and Server Builds. More info here. This tool is not
in the ToolCrib.
- ZIP: Factorial (23KB )
- Test program to consume CPU. Also in the ToolCrib.
- ZIP: Leak Memory (13KB)
- Test program to leak memory. Also in the ToolCrib.
- ZIP: LaunchIt (24KB)
- Program to launch other programs. Monitors launched process and terminates child processes when done to prevent hung Terminal Server sessions.
- ZIP: Pingtool program (42KB)
- A packet source on steroids. More than ICMP also.
- ZIP: TMnetSim Network Simulator version 2.4 32-bit (600KB)
- PC Platform software to simulate a bad WAN on a PC. Newer version than in ToolCrib, also does Packet Capture.
- ZIP: TMnetSim Network Simulator version 2.4 for x64 (600KB)
- PC Platform software to simulate a bad WAN on a PC. Newer version than in ToolCrib, also does Packet Capture.
- ZIP: MassiveRebase Version 2.0 for x86 (9MB)
- Load Dlls and look at Rebase operations. Newer version than in ToolCrib.
- ZIP: MassiveRebase Version 2.0 for x64 (11MB)
- Load Dlls and look at Rebase operations. Newer version than in ToolCrib.
- ZIP: SequentialRead: Reads a file and checks ReadAheads in Cache manager Version 1,0 (13KB)
- Test forward and reverse sequential IO on files.
WMI Software
WMI is the Microsoft version of the DMTF standard for managing PCs and Servers. Programing to interface with WMI is relatively easy using just about any scripting or programing language. At briForum 2005 I gave a presentation on doing this using script as well as Visual Basic. I was asked if I could make the source code of the examples available and so here it is.
- HTML: Additional Information
- Documentation on WMI examples from Briforum 2005 presentation.
- ZIP: VB Source Code to WMI (881KB)
- Visual Studio Projects and Source Code for examples of accessing WMI from VB.
Native API
- Project to Update the
Native API for x64, Vista, & Windows
Server 2008
- The Native APIis a set of mostly undocumented interfaces into the Microsoft Windows kernel. We use this interface in a lot of development projects. But we need to stay up-to-date with additions and possible changes. This on-line project provides an indication on progress made.
For Fun
- Solman 4 A Solitaire game with over 100 variations, many unique to this set. Most of these games are harder to win than you will find elsewhere.