OneSight Administrator Guide

Configuring WMI Monitors
Rate (minutes) – OneSight will present the data as a number,
per minute. For example, if the time interval between two
samples was 10 minutes, and 50 errors were found, the Rate
(minutes) would be five (5) errors per minute.
Note: Rate (minutes) translates data sources that return their
values as an endlessly increasing counter. If the data source
does not return data this way, use No Translation.
Unit Measure – To define a Unit Measure, click the arrow to
select a unit measure (%, bytes, hours, minutes, seconds). You
can also type in a unit measure such as messages/minute. This
measure is a display string. It does not perform any data
translation.
Sample Every: – Specifies how often samples are
taken for this monitor. Refer to, ―Sample Every Settings,‖ later
in this chapter for a description of these settings.
Discover WMI Metrics – Finds the available metrics and
populates the result tree. WMI discovery is iterative. The first
time you click Discover WMI Metrics, the top-level properties
and their child classes are discovered. Select what you want to
monitor and click Discover WMI Metrics again. Repeat this
process until you have discovered the metric you want to
monitor.
Note: Discovery may take several minutes.
String Mappings – Displays the String Mappings dialog box for
specifying string mappings.
String Mappings – OneSight collects numeric performance
data. If you are measuring a WMI object representing a String
datatype, it can be converted to a number for use in OneSight
by using the String Mappings field. Simply specify a
semicolon delimited mapping of Strings to Integers. For
example, ―false=0;true=1‖; will convert a ―false‖ reading to
a 0 value in OneSight, and this will be displayed in OneSight
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