On Aug 25, 2007, at 9:29 PM, cdillardhsp wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that WMI in Zenoss only gets
you the ability to view the event log on Windows boxes? Is it
possible to get deeper information out of WMI via ZenWin or
possibly other functionality such as starting or stopping Windows
services, listing of all software installed, listing of hardware
devices, etc.?
I've got WMI/ZenWin working fine against several Windows servers
(and SNMP) but still I don't see the CPU information (speed, etc.)
in Zenoss.
Also, we'd like to take advantage of WMI for our desktops and
laptops, primarily to get visibility into the software installed on
them.
Is any of this possible today? If not, is it on the roadmap for
Zenoss?
Clayton,
Zenoss Core uses WMI to read Windows event logs and to monitor the
status of Windows services. There is a ZenPack bundled with the
Enterprise version called WinPerf that allows for polling of
arbitrary perfmon counters as well. This would allow the polling of
CPU/RAM/Swap/Paging without using SNMP.
Currently we only support pulling the list of installed software via
SNMP. This is true of Windows and Unix systems. We do bundle wmic in
the $ZENHOME/bin directory. You could definitely use this to build a
data collector plugin that uses WMI to pull a list of installed
software from a Windows system. The query you'd use would be: select
* from Win32_Product
Chet Luther
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