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Chapter5:MonitoringDevicesintheWebConsole
Promoting aNodefromICMP to WMI Monitoring
AfteraddinganodetotheOriondatabaseasanICMPonlynode,youmayneed
topromotethenodetoWMItostartcollectingadditionalstatistics.TheNode
ManagementutilityoftheOrionWebConsolecaneasilypromoteyournodeto
WMIwithoutanylossofhistoricaldata.
Note:OnceyoupromoteanodefromICMPtoWMI,youcannotgobacktopolling
viaICMP.
TopromoteanICMPonlynodetoWMI:
1. LogintotheOrionWebConsoleasanadministrator.
2. ClickSettingsinthetoprightofthewebconsoleandthenclickManage
NodesintheNode&GroupManagementgroupingoftheOrionWebsite
Administrationpage.
3. Locatethedevicetopromoteusingeitherofthefollowingmethods:
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UsethesearchtoolabovethenodelisttosearchyourOriondatabase
forthenodeyouwanttopromote.
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SelectanappropriateGroupbycriteria,andthenclicktheappropriate
groupincludingthenodetopromote.
4. ClickEditProperties,andthenselectWindowsServers:WMIandICMP.
5. ProvideexistingWMIcredentials,orcreatenewcredentials.
6. Ifyouwanttoverifyyourcredentials,clickTest.
7. Ifyouwanttochangethedefaultpollingsettingsforyourpromoted
node,edittheNodeStatusPollingorCollectStatisticsEveryvaluesin
thePollingarea,asappropriate.
Note:TheNodeStatusPollingvaluereferstotheperiodoftime,in
seconds,betweenthenodestatuschecksOrionperformsonthepromoted
node.TheCollectStatisticsEveryvaluereferstotheperiodoftime
betweenupdatesOrionmakestodisplayedstatisticsforthepromotednode.
8. Ifyouhavedefinedanycustompropertiesformonitorednodes,
provideappropriatevaluesforthepromotednodeintheappropriateCustom
Propertiesfields.
9. ClickSubmitwhenyouhavecompletedpropertiesconfigurationforyour
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