Making Windows Performance Counters available to OPC

Part of building reliable control and SCADA systems is to ensure your IT infrastructure is sound.  Built into the Microsoft Windows platform is a series of performance counters that provide feedback about memory usage, CPU utilization and specific application parameters.   The number of performance counters available will vary from system to system depending on the installed software.  If you building a SCADA package it would be handy for performance information placed within the package, either through alarming or a system screen.