OneSight Administrator Guide

Global Metric Manager
Adding a Data Source
Data sources act as information gatherers for profile metrics or
dedicated monitors. You can view the metrics used for OneSight’s
default profiles in the Data Source Configuration dialog box. You
supply additional information in the System Editor when you apply
the profile.
OneSight also makes use of third-party data sources that reside on
the machines that OneSight is monitoring. Some OneSight data
sources (SNMP and Perfmon) require that a corresponding thirdparty
data source be running to operate successfully.
If you are using
this data source…
JDBC
On the monitored machine you may need to...
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Log File
NT Event Log
Perfmon
Ping
Service
SNMP
Install the OneSight Data Collector or Remote
Agent for NT or the OneSight Remote Agent
for Solaris or Linux.
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If the Data Collector or Remote Agent (for
NT) is not installed on the monitored machine,
make sure that the OneSight server can access
the machine’s Perfmon data. For metrics that
sample disk performance, you may also need
to execute the Diskperf command.
Ping is not available from UNIX machines.
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Enable SNMP. Also, be sure that the schema
(MIBs) on the monitored machine supports
the data you plan to collect.
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