This is the built-in help made by Microsoft for the command 'Start-SMPerformanceCollector', in PowerShell version 5 - as retrieved from
Windows version 'Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard' PowerShell help files on 2016-06-23.
For PowerShell version 3 and up, where you have Update-Help, this command was run just before creating the web pages from the help files.
Starts a data collector set.
Start-SMPerformanceCollector [-AsJob] [-CimSession <CimSession[]>] [-ThrottleLimit <Int32>] -CollectorName <String> [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [<CommonParameters>]
The Start-SMPerformanceCollector starts a data collector set in Performance Log Analyzer (PLA). A data collector set groups multiple data collection points, such as
performance counters or events, into a single component.
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Get-SMPerformanceCollector
Stop-SMPerformanceCollector
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Example 1: Start a performance data collector
PS C:\>Start-SMPerformanceCollector -CollectorName $ContosoPerf
This command starts the performance data collector by using the variable named $ContosoPerf.