WinRM monitoring

Introduction

Summary dashboard details

Monitored attributes for WinRM

Introduction:

From Entuity v19.0 upwards, monitoring for WinRM (Windows) is supported. Note, you must configure WinRM on your managed servers before you can monitor them via WinRM. Please see this article for help and information on configuring WinRM for remote monitoring.

The following versions of Windows are supported for WinRM monitoring:

• Windows Server 2012
• Windows Server 2016
• Windows Server 2019

Out of the box, WinRM monitoring is detailed in the following dashboards:

• Summary dashboard
• Incidents dashboard
• Events dashboard
• Thresholds dashboard
• Attributes dashboard
• Associations dashboard

Summary dashboard details:

The Summary dashboard details the following:

• name
• type
• server name
• OS architecture, description, distribution, domain name, hostname, manufacturer, name, release, type, version
• incident summary
• events over time
• network adapters
• CPU utilization
• memory utilization
• logical volume

Monitored attributes for WinRM:

Entuity monitors the following attributes for WinRM (which can be seen on the Attributes dashboard):

• % busy disk time, % idle disk time
• Blue screen action configuration – e.g. hang on bluescreen / restart
• Blue screen status - raise an alert if a system crashed (available from event logs)
• CPU usage
• Committed bytes in use (%) (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards) - belongs to the 'Memory' stream, does not include rollups
• Description
• Disk free (MB)
• Disk queue length (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards) - logical volume disk queue legnth, belongs to the 'Usage' stream, includes an hourly and daily rollup
• IP Address (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards)
• Location
• Manufacturer
• Memory used, ballooned, active, pages (no. of hard page faults), pages output (no. of pages written to disk)
• Memory usage
• Model
• Name
• Number of users
• Number of processes
• Number of active sessions – with threshold and events
• Number of server messages received – with threshold and events
• Pagefile usage %
• Pages (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards) - number of hard page faults (sum number of pages read from and written to the disk), belongs to the 'Memory' stream and does not include any rollups.
• Pages output (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards) - rate at which pages are written to the disk, belongs to the 'Memory' stream and does not include any rollups.
• Processor Time % (Entuity v20.0 P03 upwards) - average time the processors are non-idle as a %.
• Version
• Ports:
  • Discovery of installed software packages
    • Name, Date and Type (OS, driver, application, other)
  • Duplex
  • In + Out
    • Utilization
    • Traffic
    • Faults
    • Discards
  • IPs
  • Name
  • Speed
  • SNMP agent reboot time
  • Volumes
    • Name, Size
    • 5 minute stream data for each volume’s:
      • Allocation failures
      • AU (allocation unit) size
      • Free %
      • Size (in AUs)
      • Type (physical, virtual, fixed disk, removable disk, floppy, CD/DVD, RAM disk)
      • Used % + threshold + events for low disk warnings
      • Used AUs
      • Volume size