Monitoring data from Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

To collect metrics through the Windows® APIs, the agent must be hosted on a Windows operating system, and remote registry administration must be enabled on the remote systems.

Use the following procedure to add WMI data:

1. On the Agent Initial Data Source page (Figure 74) or the Data Source Location page, click Data from a server in the Monitoring Data Categories area.
   Figure 74. Adding WMI data

   
2. In the Data Sources area, click WMI.
3. Click Next.
4. On the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Information page (Figure 75), do one of the following steps:
   Figure 75. WMI Information page

   
   1. Type a name for the WMI namespace and a name for the WMI class name in the fields.

      --OR--

   2. Click Browse to see all of the WMI classes on the system (Figure 76).

      To browse a remote system, select a system from the drop-down list (if one has been defined) or click Add to add the host name of a Windows system. Provide an Administrator ID and password. The page is updated with the information for the remote system. Browsing is only available when the Agent Builder is run on a Windows system, and can only browse Windows systems. For instance, you cannot add the host name of a Linux® or Solaris system to do a remote browse.

      Figure 76. List of classes with their associated attributes

      
      1. Click the plus sign (+) next to a class to expand the class and display the attributes.
      2. From the list, select the class with its associated attributes that you want to specify, and click OK.
         Note:
         You can click the Search (binoculars) icon to find your selection in the list. Type a phrase in the Search phrase field; specify your preference by clicking either the Search by name, Search by class description, or Search by class properties fields; and click OK (Figure 77). If you find the item for which you are searching, select it and click OK.
         Figure 77. Optionally specifying WMI search options

         
      3. The WMI Information page of the wizard is displayed again, showing the selected WMI class information (Figure 78).
         Figure 78. WMI Information page completed

         
         If you typed the information manually, a data source with zero attributes is created. If you browsed, a new data source is created and automatically populated with attributes that correspond to the properties in the WMI class.
      4. Click Next.
      5. On the Select key attributes page, do the following:
         1. Select key attributes or indicate that this data source produces only one data row. See Selecting key attributes for more information.
      6. Do one of the following steps:
         1. If you are using the New Agent Wizard, click Next.

            --OR--

         2. Click Finish to save the data source and open the Agent Editor.
            Figure 79. WMI shown on Data Source Definition page in the Agent Editor

            
      7. You can add attributes and supply the information for them. See Creating attributes for more information.

         In addition to the fields that are applicable to all of the data sources (Table 6), the Attribute Information page for the WMI data source has the following field:

         Metric name

         Property name from the class you want to collect

   3. If you want to set global options for the data source, click Global Options (Figure 80).
      Figure 80. Global Windows Data Source Options window

      

      Select the Include remote Windows configuration properties check box if you want to include this option, and click OK.

      For information about Windows remote connection configuration for Windows data sources, see Configuring a Windows remote connection.

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