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Example: How to Monitor a Specific Windows Performance Registry Metric

This step-by-step example describes how to monitor a user-specific metric.

How to monitor user-specific metrics (MIB extensions)

1. Create a MIB extension for a Windows Performance Registry metric.
   1. From the user interface, click Policy, open Configuration in the navigation pane, expand the Policy tree, and open a SystemEDGE policy.

      The policy details appear in the right pane.

   2. Click the MIB Extensions tab.

      The MIB Extensions pane opens.

   3. Click Windows Performance.

      The Windows Performance Defined Extensions pane appears.

   4. Add the following data into the fields:

      Index: 1 (If the extension is the first one)

      Type: integer

      Object: System

      Counter: Processes (Provides the total number of running processes).

      The System metrics have no ‘instance’ so this field is left blank.

   5. Click Add.

      The MIB Extension is added to the Policy.

   6. Click Save Policy.

      The policy is saved.

2. Create a threshold monitor to check the value of the new monitor.
   1. Click Monitors and then Thresholds.

      The Threshold Monitor Details Edit pane appears.

   2. Add the following data into the fields:

      Index: (automatically added)

      Platform: OS Independent

      Object Class: ntRegPerf (NT Registry and Performance Group)

      Object Attribute: 1

      Object Instance Name: NumProcesses

      Interval: 60

      Severity: Warning Alarm

      Operator: greater than or equal to

      Value: 50

      Scale: 1

      Sample Type: absolute value

   3. Click Save.

      The policy is saved. A ‘warning’ alarm with threshold ‘50’ is added.

   4. Click Action and then Apply, to apply the policy to a computer.

      The Selected Machines pane appears.

   5. Verify that the selected machines are correct and click Apply.

      The policy with the MIB extension is applied to the selected computers.

      Click Return to Policy.

      The policy details pane appears.

Once the agent is configured, you can view the state of this threshold monitor from the Resources tab.