Probe: Windows Monitoring

Maximize efficiency and stability of your network with our WMI Monitoring Probe for Windows. Designed to provide a detailed view of the performance and health of your Windows servers and workstations, this essential tool collects crucial metrics via the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) API.

What is the Probe for?

Imagine having an X-ray of your Windows environment in real time. Our probe works that way, allowing you to:

• Monitor system performance: Track CPU, RAM, disk and network usage to identify bottlenecks and optimize resources.
• Detect problems proactively: Receive alerts about critical events, service failures and other indicators of potential instabilities before they impact your users.
• Analyze resource consumption: Understand how applications and processes use system resources for smarter capacity planning.
• Visualize key data: Integrate the collected metrics with Monsta so you can create customized, detailed dashboards.
• Diagnose issues remotely: Get valuable information to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently, even without physical access to the machine.

Seamless integration: Specifically designed for the Windows environment, making full use of the WMI API capabilities.

Lightweight and efficient: Low resource consumption, ensuring monitoring does not impact the monitored system’s performance.

Easy installation and configuration: A simple and intuitive process to get your probe running quickly.

Accurate and reliable data: Collects detailed, real-time information for precise analysis of your infrastructure.

Flexibility: Tailor metric collection to your specific needs.

With our WMI Monitoring Probe for Windows, you’ll have full control over the health and performance of your Windows systems, ensuring a robust, efficient and always-available IT infrastructure. Start monitoring intelligently now!

Probe Installation

1. Download the probe program on the Windows operating system you want to monitor;

	DOWNLOAD https://www.monsta.com.br/monsta/download/MonstaProbe.exe (64bits)

2. Logged in as an administrator user, run the installer “monstaprobe.exe” (see Installation via the command line for batch installation);
3. Configure the port and password parameters that will be requested during installation.

Note

port: This is the port that the probe will use for Monsta to connect. The default is 7744 (TCP).
password: This is the authentication password for the probe on the installed computer. The default is monsta@dm.

Configuration in Monsta

Inside Monsta, when creating a device, simply configure it to use the Microsoft templates.

And fill the “WMI User” field with any information (it will be discarded later) and the “WMI Password” field with the password provided during the probe installation.

After creating the device you can start using the template’s available monitors.

Installation via the command line

The MonstaProbe.exe installer accepts command-line options. You can use them to automate installation across a network via a GPO, without the need for interaction with the graphical interface.

Option	Description
--agree	Accepts the probe collector’s terms of use.
--port	Specifies the port to be used by the probe collector. If not specified, the default will be 7744 (TCP).
--passwd	Sets the password to be used by the probe collector. The default password will be monsta@dm if not provided.

Usage example

MonstaProbe.exe --agree --port 1234 --passwd senha

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