WMI Poller

Known Issues

• Under heavy dev, try at your own risk. That said, it doesn't do any irreversible data changes in Observium, so it's mostly harmless
• For wmi-common there are conflicts with existing SNMP pollers
  • Event logs will show several entries for updated OS, possibly processor
  • Consequently, generic info is still a work in progress
• MS SQL is still a work in progress, suggestions for counters welcome
• App definitions need to be added for MS SQL (only affects Apps overview page, ie. http://yourobserviumsite/apps/app=mssql/)
• App definitions need to be revisited for Exchange
• Display name option for apps has not been added to all areas where app_type is used

Database changes

update/101.sql

• Alters applications table: adds "app_name" column
  • This allows customized app name display in HTML elements such as navbars

Changes to existing files

includes/defaults.inc.php

• Added config variable for WMIC executable directory
• Added config variables for WMI polling options
• Added WMI poller modules entries, default set to 0

includes/definitions/apps.inc.php

• Added app definition for Exchange

html/pages/device/appcs.inc.php

• Fixed bug where all instances of an application would be active on navbar (OBSERVIUM-515)
• Changed app navbar to display an application name (see DB changes)
• Changed app navbar to display app instance in parenthesis

Additions

• Three WMI poller modules that must be enabled in a device's modules page

WMI Poller for Generic Server Info

• Finally display correct CPU name!
• Updates the correct version of Windows

WMI Poller for Microsoft Exchange Counters

• Pollers for:
  • ActiveSync
  • Autodiscover
  • Information Store
  • Mailbox
  • Offline Address Book
  • Outlook Web App
  • Transport Queues
  • SMTP

WMI Poller for very basic MS SQL Counters

• Currently only polling:
  • Current User Connections
  • Buffers

Installation

FOLLOW AT YOUR OWN RISK:
See attached PDF