CONFIGURED A DEVICE FOW WMI
-I see only cpu load and memory statistics..what about the disk usage?
out of curiosity, why don't you use NPM to collect this information?
but i wanted to see them in a single screen..going back to npm takes some time
Hi,
You can add a WMI performance Counter to your template which will poll the Win32_LogicalDisk WMI class.
The FreeSpace property in that class is probably what you need to check. Compare it with the size property to find out which Threshold to configure based on the disk size.
Page 40-41 of the PDF: http://www.solarwinds.com/support/apm/docs/APMAdministratorGuide.pdf
Unselect the Volumes monitoring in the List Resources through System Manager or the web console to avoid doing the job two times in parallel.
Note: I tried as well to add the Volumes Utilization resource to an APM app view but the resource will not show up as the view is based on an App ID and not a Node ID, So using the WMI Performance Counter seems to be the solution.
HTH,
Yann
yann idont see where is the ff.
--The FreeSpace property in that class is probably what you need to check
Not sure what you meant by "ff" .
If you follow the Admin guide to create a WMI Performance Counter, it will ask you a WQL query to poll a specific property in a WMI Class.
The Propery I advise you to poll in the Win32_LogicalDisk class is the FreeSpace one. You can review the definition of that WMI class here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394173.aspx
If you need to check the Disk utilization of the C: drive, the WQL query will be:
SELECT FreeSpace FROM Win32_LogicalDisk WHERE DeviceID="C:"
As suggested by Alterego, this procedure is far more complicated than monitoring the Disks as volumes in System Manager. However if you definitely need to see the Disk utilization of your server on the Application page, adding some WMI performance Counter monitors to it will do the trick.
Yann.
