Hi,
Any news on the status of a SolarWinds Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) component since Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, abandoned SNMP for Exchange, SQL etc.?
Thanks,
Craig
We'll be coming out with a WMI poller in early 2008.
Based on preliminary glimpses it may not be exactly what you are asking for. At present there doesn't not appear to be any method of collecting PerfMon counters, which is what most people are talking about when they ask for WMI support.
Now this is based on a demonstration or a very early development version of the product which might not reflect the final product, but from what I was able to observe the WMI support Denny says will be available in early 2008 appears to be limited to process monitoring. Similar to what the SNMP Application Monitor does now just via WMI.
I hope that helps
More generic WMI polling will probably be later in the year.
Denny is right. We're exploring the addition of more generic WMI polling later in the year. For those interested in WMI polling, what are the drivers for getting this data? How would you use this data in your job? For example, are your network infrastructure management responsibilities being extended to include more application/server monitoring (that require WMI statistics)? Is the request for WMI coming from the server folks?
