Make SWIS a component monitor type so one can create monitors from data already collected in Orion using SWQL

tigger2

Ideas on how this could be used:

- Internal monitoring of Orion. Component montior allow SWQL query to return a single piece of data (like "query count(*) Nodes"), which then can then be charted/thresholded (ok, no one's going to threshold on this ) but I could see using it to count the nodes in an unknown state, then threshold on if > 0.

- Give the ability to create monitors from extrapolations of already collected data. e.g. if a monitor is pulling "Max user count" for each of 5 devices that are being load balanced, you can pull this metric for all hosts and average it over time (say, 20 minutes) to get "Max Total User Count/hour" or calculate it over the total number of servers the users are being load balanced over

- So you you don't have to re-poll the same device (or handle credentials) if you want to utilze any of the already collected data.

Additionally: Add the functionality like the Windows Performance counter component has where you can do value conversion and formulas on the returned data.

xtraspecialj

This is a seriously underrated request.  The things you could do with this are seriously limitless.  Yes, you could create a script monitor that essentially does this, but that has both the administrative overhead of creating/editing a script to return the data, plus the performance overhead that comes along with script monitors.  On top of that, you are quite limited when it comes to displaying data from script monitors.  If done correctly, your idea would be very cool.