Collect historical data of hardware states

You can enable the collection of historical data on the system's hardware to see graphs of the states of your hardware over time and print a report. For more information, see View the historical state of your hardware and print a report.

1. In the Site Navigation pane, select System Dashboard > System Monitor.

2. In the System Monitor window, select Customize.
3. In the Customize dashboard window that opens, select Collect historical data.
4. Select a sampling interval. The shorter the interval, the more load on the SQL Server database, bandwidth, or other hardware. The sampling interval of historical data also determines how detailed the graphs are.