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spiritie
4 years ago

How to handle WMI misconfiguration?

Hi LogicMonitor Community We are busy implemententing LogicMonitor across our entire server platform. Something that I can't figure out how to handle is when WMI stops working for one reason ...
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spiritie
4 years ago
14 minutes ago, Stuart Weenig said:

The easiest thing is to decide which WMI DataSource you want to consider your "canary in the coal mine" and set a no-data alert on it. That way, whenever WMI fails, that datapoint would have no data and would trigger an alert.

I'm surprised that the WMI troubleshooter DS didn't trigger anything. Have you checked that your portal has the most up to date DataSources?

 

Hi Stuart

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try create a no-data alert alarm :)/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" title=":)" width="20" />

I went ahead and upgraded the module (from v1.2 --> v1.3), I'll test it out and see if it made any difference.