Analysis of your IT infrastructure

Add a performance counter type alert

As a reminder, the Monitorpack concept is as follows:

• When creating alerts, Monitorpack does not use a static library like the others, but actually points to the remote machine that it will monitor, thus having all the performance counters available,
  
  you install an application and the meters are immediately available for Monitorpack!


• During monitoring, it is the Windows Monitorpack Guard Engine service that actually controls all performance counters, which implies that in the Windows Monitorpack Guard Engine service connection settings you need to configure the 'Log on as' account with an account that is local administrator of the remote machines.

We recommend using a dedicated account such as 'svc_Monitorpack' Member of the 'Domain admins' group which generally, is by default local administrator of all servers and workstations in the active directory forest.

Microsoft security prerequisites must be completed

In the Guard console

Open Monitorpack Guard > Create alerts > Select Monitoring Performance >

User authentication

The Monitorpack concept is unique and fetches all existing performance counters directly from the remote server, you will have to choose the option o Current logon if the account of the current session is an administrator of the remote machine, otherwise use the o Alternate credential option. and provide the correct account. You can consult the best practices defined in the Monitorpack Guard prerequisites.

Performance counter collection

Click [ Perfmon ] and set the computer on which you want to select the performance counter, remembering not respect the format <\\NameOrServerIP>.
Then select the level of detail of the Performance counters, click on the first performance counter window which will put update the Remote Performance Counter, select the performance counter then the instance, click [Add] and [ Close ], A validation window will appear confirming the successful collection of the performance counter.

Then define the rule as well as the value which will condition the triggering of the alarm, finally click on [ Verify parameters ]

Provided that all fields are correctly configured, you can create the alert by clicking on [ Create ] select the type of alarm (mail, log, SQL, ticket)

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