Is there a white paper available on how to setup monitoring for a Windows Server (i.e. 2003 & 2008). I'm wanting to monitor disk space, RAM, & CPU usage. Is this possible with just NPM or will it require APM to perform this?
You can monitor all of those things with just NPM. The Administrator Guide explains this in detail. Basically, you just need to install SNMP on the monitored server, configure a community string and then configure the node within Orion with the same string. Do a discovery and Orion should automatically show you CPU, Memory & all available disk drives to monitor.
Orion NPM will do this out of the box utilizing SNMP. APM can get that same data as well as much more grainular performance data utilizing WMI and Performance Counters.
I would say start with NPM and see if that gets you what you want first. You can download it and run it for free for 30 days to see if it's what you are looking for, APM as well for that matter.
Hey like Dirty South said enable SNMPv3 on the servers add the node select what you want to monitor and BAM there you go
Thank you very much for the responses guys. This has help us out alot.
