am just confused about common practice
- when are we going to monitor windows services versus wmi
-should it be either or it shold be both
- if it is either, what is the advantage of selecting one over the other
thanks
Hi,
You can monitor the Windows Services through WMI or SNMP. WMI is the protocol and the Windows Services are the components you wish to monitor using that protocol.
WMI and/or SNMP allows you to gather information from the device. The advantage of WMI for a Windows Device is that it allows you to poll remotely all the Performance Counters.
In APM, using WMI to monitor a windows service will show you Virtual Memory utilization plus the common information you find as well with the SNMP service monitor (CPU, Memory Utilization...). I do not know which one is the most accurate between SNMP and WMI counters to monitor the status of a Windows Service.
Let me know if that makes sense or if you need more information.
Yann
sorry..i just finished the NPM config and proceeding now to APM.
-if say i have 2 services in a server which is configured using snmp and windows services and i want to monitor the same using wmi, what are the steps i have to do?
correct me if iam wrong.
-right click the services on windows, click properties, copy the executable command excluding the path and add this to the wmi monitor.
please help
Yes, that will give you the executable name to specify in the Process Monitor - WMI component.
hello,
i tried using wmi and selected as sample the Rtvscan.exe
i dont see the virutal memory things.
i could only see CPU Load & Memory Statistics
i was expecting to see disk usage as well..
anything wrong..pls advise
Hello,
I attached a screenshot showing what you should see for that WMI Service Monitor.
You can access a such view through the top link: Application Performance Monitor
Then Click on the Template Name and finally on the Component Name.
Is it what you did or are you on the Node Details view of your device?
You might want to read this thread: disk usage in apm
Hi, I know this is an old thread, but I have been trying to find a way to monitor windows services on NT4 boxes through SNMP (I know how to do so with WMI but the requirement is to us SNMP)
Thanks
I've covered how to monitor processes running on Windows NT in this thread here -> Re: Windows Service Monitor - Unexpected error occured. Invalid class
Unfortunately not all information required for process monitoring is available via SNMP in Windows NT. The earliest version of Windows to support process monitoring via SNMP is Windows 2000. The method above can be done using RPC if TCP port restrictions or NAT is your concern with WMI.
