WmiMonitor

The WMI monitor tests the availability of WMI services on remote interfaces.

WSMAN does everything that WMI does and is a more modern protocol for Windows monitoring.

Monitor facts

Class Name

org.opennms.netmgt.poller.monitors.WmiMonitor

Configuration and use

Note that username, password, and domain credentials defined here override any defined in the wmi-config file. Best practice is to put credentials there instead of in the pollerd/collectd configuration.

Table 1. Optional monitor-specific parameters for the WmiMonitor
Parameter	Description	Default
username	The username to use when authenticating against the WMI host.	none
password	The password to use when authenticating against the WMI host.	none
domain	Windows domain where the user is located. You do not have to use the domain parameter if you use local user accounts.	none
matchType	Tells the OpenNMS WMI system to deal with multiple instance results. Available match types are: all: all instances must comply to the compare operation. none: no instances should comply with the compare operation. some: only some (one or more) must comply with the compare operation. one: only one instance can comply with the compare operation.	all
wmiClass	Class of instances within WMI. This class contains objects representing properties and methods available.	Win32_ComputerSystem
wmiObject	Member of a WMI property set. For example, the `Win32_ComputerSystem` class contains properties that we can look at and poll. The default "WMI" service uses the "Status" property to determine if the system is running and if WMI is available.	Status
compareOp	The compare operation tells the OpenNMS WMI poller plugins how to verify the nature (up, critical) of a specific property within WMI. In the event of unequal comparisons, the system will always have the WMI value (as retrieved from the target) on the left. Available compare operations are: EQ (equals) NEQ (not equals) GT (greater than) LT (less than) NOOP (no operation) The NOOP operation is a special case which always evaluates to a result code of "OK."	EQ
compareValue	The value to use when performing a comparison against the wmiObject.	OK
service-name	Name of the service to monitor. If there is a ~ at the beginning of the parameter, the rest of the string will be used as a regular expression pattern match, otherwise it will be considered an exact match.	WMI
retry	Number of retries before the service is marked as down.	0
timeout	Time in milliseconds to wait for a response.
namespace	Every WMI class exists in a namespace. The default namespace for most common classes is root/cimv2. It is possible to refer to WMI objects from other namespaces such as root/MicrosoftActiveDirectory.	root/cimv2

Example

The following example shows how to enable monitoring that already discovered WMI services are still running.

Note that you must include the monitor section for each service in your definition.

    <service name="WMI" interval="300000" user-defined="false" status="on">
      <parameter key="retry" value="2" />
      <parameter key="timeout" value="30000" />
      <parameter key="matchType" value="all"/>
      <parameter key="wmiClass" value="Win32_ComputerSystem" />
      <parameter key="wmiObject" value="Status" />
      <parameter key="compareOp" value="EQ" />
      <parameter key="compareValue" value="OK" />
      <parameter key="service-name" value="WMI" />
    </service>

<monitor service="WMI" class-name="org.opennms.netmgt.poller.monitors.WmiMonitor" />