Microsoft Windows monitoring and management plugin
Verax NMS Microsoft Windows management plugin enables easy monitoring, alerting, health check, management and
performance reporting for Microsoft Windows workstations and servers. The plugin uses a mixed model of WMI and SNMP
to communicate with managed Windows hosts.
General information view
The view provides a configuration summary for a Windows workstation or server including:
- OS version and hardware platform (e.g. Windows 2000 Version 5.1 on Intel x86)
- CPU and RAM configuration
- Current uptime
- Host name, location and administrative contact
- Date of the last software update
- High level usage statistics: logged on users, running processes and network interfaces
Logical storage
The view displays information about Windows logical storage (disks and memory) such as
storage name, size and current usage.
Long-term storage
The view displays information about Windows long term storage including:
- List of devices: device ID, access mode (read-only, read-write), media (hard disk, optical drive), removable status and capacity
- List of partitions for each device: partition ID, type and size
- File systems: mount points, access modes, bootable status, backup status (full, partial) and others
Processes view
The view provides an overview of processes currently running on a Windows machine including:
- Process image name (e.g. services.exe), path (e.g. C:\WINDOWS\system32) and command line arguments
- Process id (PID) and type (OS, service or application)
- Resource consumption: number of threads spawned by the process and amount of memory used
- CPU usage chart (busy/available) for each CPU in the system
Installed software view
The view provides detailed view of the installed software including: package name (e.g. Microsoft .NET Framework 4),
type (e.g. application) and last modification date (installation or update).
Devices view
The view provides an inventory of physical devices in the system (similar to Windows Device Manager):
- Type (e.g. network, storage, keyboard, processor, etc.)
- Name (e.g. D:\, COM1, Intel, etc.)
- Status (running, off-line)
- Device error information
Printers view
The view provides a list of all printers installed in the system along with
name (e.g. Microsoft XPS Document Writer), description, status and error information.
Network interfaces view
The view provides information on network interfaces detected in the system including:
- Interface details: index, description (e.g. MS TCP loopback), type (Ethernet, software loopback, etc.), physical address, administrative and operational statuses
- Interface parameters: link speed, MTU, in/out packet statistics and others
IP configuration view
The view provides detailed information about IP (Internet Protocol) network configuration of a Microsoft Windows
machine including:
- General parameters such as TTL, forwarding status and others
- Routing table: interfaces, destination addresses, next hops, routing protocols and others
Predefined Microsoft Windows monitoring templates
The plugin contains predefined templates for most commonly monitored Microsoft Windows items (other, additional sensors
and performance counters can be added by the user):
| Microsoft Windows CPU Utilization |
| Microsoft Windows Memory Utilization |
| Microsoft Windows Free Disk Space |
| Microsoft Windows Percent Disk Reads Time |
| Microsoft Windows Percent Disk Writes Time |
| Microsoft Windows Disk Reads Per Second |
| Microsoft Windows Disk Writes Per Second |
| Microsoft Windows Free Memory |
| Microsoft Windows Interface Input Traffic |
| Microsoft Windows Interface Output Traffic |
| Microsoft Windows Interface Inbound Non-unicast Packets |
| Microsoft Windows Interface Outbound Non-unicast Packets |
| Microsoft Windows Interface Traffic Ratio |
| Microsoft Windows Interface Unicast Ratio |
| Microsoft Windows Interface Discarded Packets Ratio |
| Microsoft Windows Interface Packets With Errors Ratio |
| Microsoft Windows Storage Usage |
| Microsoft Windows Storage Percentage Usage |
| Microsoft Windows Physical Memory Usage |
| Microsoft Windows Physical Memory Percentage Usage |
| Microsoft Windows Virtual Memory Usage |
| Microsoft Windows Virtual Memory Percentage Usage |
Additional sensors
The following additional sensors can be created for a Windows host:
| Ping |
| TCP |
| SNMP Ping |
| SNMP Custom |
| DNS |
| FTP |
| HTTP |
| SSH |
| Radius |
| LDAP |
| DHCP |
| SMTP |
| POP3 |
| IMAP |
| JDBC |
| XML |
| JMX |
| Shell script |
See also
.NET Framework monitoring and management plugin 
Microsoft Exchange management plugin
Microsoft IIS management plugin
Microsoft SQL Server management plugin
Microsoft Active Directory monitoring and management plugin
UNIX monitoring and management plugin
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