Enabling and disabling system monitoring
This section describes how to enable and disable the monitoring of basic server systems. By default, the monitoring for all discovered systems is enabled. To disable or enable monitoring, use the menu command shown in the following table. The menu command displays a dialog that allows you to exclude or include systems from monitoring.
Enabling and disabling system monitoring
System | Monitored by default | To enable or disable |
|---|---|---|
Processors | All processors discovered on the system | From the PATROL Console, access the Processors application and select the KM menu command Enable-Disable Processor Monitoring. For more information, see Enabling and disabling processor monitoring. |
Physical disks | All physical disks discovered on the system | From the PATROL Console, access the Physical Disks application and select the KM menu command Enable-Disable Physical Disk Monitoring. For more information, see Enabling and disabling physical disk monitoring. |
Logical disks | All logical disks discovered on the system | From the PATROL Console, access the Logical Disk application and select the KM menu command Enable-Disable Logical Disk Monitoring. To monitor logical disks, PerfMon counters must be enabled. Note If no data appears for the NT_LOGICAL_DISK application class, run one of the following diskperf commands from a command-line window to ensure that the Microsoft diskperf counters are enabled:
For the platforms shown above, Microsoft requires that you restart the system after running the diskperf command. For more information, see Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q262937, "PRB: RegQueryValueEx() May Not Return Disk Performance Counters." For more information, see Enabling and disabling logical disk monitoring. |
Pagefiles | All pagefiles discovered on the system | From the PATROL Console, access the Pagefiles application and select the KM menu command Enable-Disable Pagefile Monitoring. For more information, see Enabling and disabling pagefile monitoring. |
Event logs | All event logs listed in the registry | From the PATROL Console, access the Windows Events application and select the KM menu command Enable-Disable Windows Event Log Monitoring. To monitor the security event log, the PATROL Agent default account must have the user right Manage auditing and security log. For more information, see Configuring Windows events monitoring. |
Network protocols | All network protocols that are installed on the system | From the PATROL Console, access the Network Protocols application and select the KM menu command Enable-Disable Protocol Monitoring. For more information, see Enabling and disabling network protocol monitoring. |
Network interfaces | All network interfaces discovered on the system | From the PATROL Console, access the Network Interfaces application and select the KM menu command Enable-Disable Network Interface Monitoring. For more information, see Enabling and disabling network interface monitoring. |
Printers | All printers discovered on the system | From the PATROL Console, access the Printers application and select the KM menu command Enable-Disable Printer Monitoring. For more information, see Configuring printers. |
Job objects | All job objects discovered on the system | From the PATROL Console, access the Job Objects application and select the KM menu command Enable-Disable Job Object Monitoring. For more information, see Configuring Windows job objects. |