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IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 > User's Guides > Agent Builder User's Guide IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

Monitor a Windows Performance Monitor (Perfmon)

Define a data source to collect data from Windows Performance Monitor.


Procedure

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

    Figure 1. Adding Perfmon data

  2. In the Data Sources area, click Perfmon.

  3. Click Next.

  4. On the Perfmon Information page, do one of the following steps:

    Figure 2. Perfmon Information page

    • Type the name of the object in the Object Name field, and click Next to define the first attribute in the attribute group.

      If you type the name for the Windows Performance Monitor object, it must be the English name.

    • Click Browse to view the list of Perfmon objects.

      When the Performance Monitor (Perfmon) Object Browser (Figure 3) window initially opens, the window populates with the information from the local system. To browse a remote system, select a system from the list (if one is defined), or click Add to add the host name of a Windows system. Provide an Administrator ID and password. The window updates with the information for the remote system. Browsing is available only when the Agent Builder is running on a Windows system, and can browse only Windows systems. For instance, you cannot add the host name of a Linux or Solaris system to do a remote browse.

      • When you click an object name, the available counters in that object are shown in the opposite window.

        Figure 3. Browsing for Windows Performance Monitor objects

        • To sort the Windows Performance Monitor objects or counters, click the column heading.

        • To refresh the information in the window, click Refresh.

        • To search for specific objects or counters click the Search (binoculars) icon to open the Performance Monitor Search window (Figure 4). You can search object names, counter names, or both. The search operation does a substring match and is not case-sensitive.

          Figure 4. Performance Monitor Search window

        • Select an object and click OK.

        • The Perfmon Information page opens with the name of the selected object in the Object Name field.

          Figure 5. Perfmon Information page with Object Name

    • To set global options for the data source, click Global Options

      Figure 6. 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 (Configure a Windows remote connection).

  5. If the Windows Performance Monitor object selected returns multiple instances and you want to filter the results that are based on the instance name:

    1. Select the Filter by Perfmon Instance Name check box on the Perfmon Information page.

    2. In the Perfmon Instance Name field, type the name of the instance to be filtered, or click Browse to list the instances available.

    3. To browse a remote system, either select one from the list, or click Add to add the host name of a Windows system. After you select a host, provide an Administrator ID and password. The table is updated with the list of instances on the remote system.

    You can also filter by attribute group, see step 9

  6. If the selected Windows Performance Monitor Object is to return multiple instances, and you want the instance name to be returned, select Return Instance Name on the Perfmon Information page. Checking this option adds an attribute to the data source that is not shown in the list of attributes. This attribute contains the instance name.

    If you browsed for the selected object, and that object is defined as having multiple instances, this check box is selected automatically.

  7. If you did not check the option to return the instance name, the Select key attributes page opens. On the Select key attributes page, select key attributes or indicate that this data source produces only one data row. See (Selecting key attributes).

  8. Optional: You can test this attribute group by clicking Test. For more information about testing, see Test Perfmon attribute groups

  9. Optional: You can create a filter to limit the data that is returned by this attribute group by clicking Advanced. For more information about filtering data from an attribute group, see stepFiltering attribute groups

    You can also filter by instance name, see 5

  10. Do one of the following steps:

    • If you are using the New Agent wizard, click Next.

    • Click Finish to save the data source and open the Agent Editor.

      The Agent Editor Data Source Definition page shows a list that contains the object (Figure 7), and information about the object.

      Figure 7. Perfmon Data Source Definition


  11. You can add attributes and supply the information for them. See (Create attributes).

    In addition to the fields applicable to all data sources, the Perfmon Attribute Information page for the data source has the following field:

    Metric name

    Name of the counter for the specific object.


What to do next

For information about Windows remote connection configuration for Perfmon data sources, see (Configure a Windows remote connection).


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