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Cole_McDonald
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6 years ago

Hyper-V 'Sources WMI vs. Batchscript

We have far more WMI requests than I'd like to see on our collectors.  Does anyone know if using a batchscript 'Source uses fewer TCP sockets/ephemeral ports to perform data gathering over a WMI ba...
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Cole_McDonald
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6 years ago

Based on this, we should be able to support 800 devices / collector (large) for WMI queries and we have two of them in the group... so 1600 devices: https://www.logicmonitor.com/support/collectors/collector-overview/collector-capacity/

We're nowhere near that.  Reducing the frequency on the Cluster and hyperv counters to 5 minutes seems to have taken off quite a bit of load.  My active ports are now down to reasonable counts on the collector again.