WMI monitoring through firewalls and NAT routers?
Hi clever people...has anyone managed to solve the problem of monitoring WMI stuff from APM, when the APM poller sits on the remote site of a firewall tot he device being monitored? if i disable all...
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I just downloaded the new App Monitor Module. The main reason is for WMI polling. I am new to WMI, I understand there needs to be a certain level of access to the Windows server for Orion to poll WMI....
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View ArticleGartner 2011 Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring
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Is there a monitor or report that will monitor the count of databases on a sql server or cluster? I would like to be able to monitor all sql instances on a cluster or at least be able to find out how...
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View ArticleWhat protocol and port number is used for WMI monitoring?
It is probably mentioned somewhere in this forum but the search mechanism of the forum sucks and I'm not getting any hits searching on "wmi port", "port number" and other strings.I did learn from one...
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The concept of server and service monitoring has been on my mind for a little while. I'd like to know what it takes for us SysAdmins and NetAdmins to consider a server, appliance, or application to be...
View ArticleHow to monitor a service that is not Windows base services for SAM?
I am trying to find a way in Solarwinds to monitor a third party services that is running in Windows. I was curious would it show up in the web interface as enabled or disabled? I had searched every...
View ArticlePowershell - Test failed with "unknown" status
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View ArticleMonitoring ESXi Hosts - A deeper look at the what and the why
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I have a host that shows the error message "Unexpected error occured. Invalid class" for all Windows Service Monitors (using the application template Windows 2003-2008 so DTC, Network Connections,...
View ArticleWMI monitoring through firewalls and NAT routers?
Hi clever people...has anyone managed to solve the problem of monitoring WMI stuff from APM, when the APM poller sits on the remote site of a firewall tot he device being monitored? if i disable all...
View ArticleWMI Polling and Account access
I just downloaded the new App Monitor Module. The main reason is for WMI polling. I am new to WMI, I understand there needs to be a certain level of access to the Windows server for Orion to poll WMI....
View ArticleRPC Monitors failing - RPC errors
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View ArticleWindows Server Disk Performance Monitoring (Through APM custom WMI) - HELP
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View ArticleVMWare datastore reports
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View ArticleHow to monitor a service that is not Windows base services for SAM?
I am trying to find a way in Solarwinds to monitor a third party services that is running in Windows. I was curious would it show up in the web interface as enabled or disabled? I had searched every...
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