Performance Counters, WMI and WCF

Hi,

Since WMI monitoring is a bit expensive, is there any other way to get performance counters from a target machine?

An alternative consists in using the SNMP informant agent on the servers as it populates WMI counters in SNMP MIBs.

http://www.snmp-informant.com/

Then you can create Universal Device Pollers to poll the relevant MIBs.

Concerning the WCF template, you might find one in the Content Exchange zone:

http://thwack.com/media/g/application_templates/default.aspx

HTH,

Yann

I understand that there exists WMI Performance Monitor component in APM to monitor performance counters on target machines. Since WMI monitoring is a bit expensive, is there any other way to get performance counters from a target machine?

What do you mean when you say WMI is expensive?  Do you mean it burns a lot of monitors in our licensing scheme?  Or that it is expensive in terms of performance?

Performance. Or am I mistaken?

If you're avoiding WMI because you think it hurts performance on your server, you shouldn't.  Use the WMI monitors in the built-in templates.  And if you think it hurts APM's performance, it doesn't do that either.