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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

CraigRosie

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

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FormerMember

We'll be coming out with a WMI poller in early 2008.

aLTeReGo

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

FormerMember

More generic WMI polling will probably be later in the year.

chris.lapoint

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?

PhilipLee

We were interested in a broader access to WMI data via APM for monitoring our web and database servers. We had hoped to be able to track more detailed information than just availability info for specific processes. Ideally, we would have a central system for alerting us of any form of issue that could impact service delivery, be the issue a bouncing switch port, or a database that is suffering from timeouts, blocking, or disk I/O problems. The key is a central point of collection, and we'd be happy to have Orion and APM serve as that source.

FormerMember

We were interested in a broader access to WMI data via APM for monitoring our web and database servers. We had hoped to be able to track more detailed information than just availability info for specific processes. Ideally, we would have a central system for alerting us of any form of issue that could impact service delivery, be the issue a bouncing switch port, or a database that is suffering from timeouts, blocking, or disk I/O problems. The key is a central point of collection, and we'd be happy to have Orion and APM serve as that source.

This is coming in a few months.