Monitoring Windows Server

Supply on-premise Windows Server connection details to Spotlight Cloud.

In some environments it may not be feasible for Spotlight Cloud to connect to the Windows server with an account that is a member of the Administrators group. The following instructions are provided for these environments.

In order to effectively use WMI between fire walled hosts you can limit the number of ports used by the DCOM subsystem and only open those ports.

Use these instructions to verify WMI is working and returns data properly.

Investigate performance details for each CPU on the monitored Windows servers in your SQL Server environment.

List the alarms that can be raised against the monitored Windows servers in your SQL Server environment.

Connect Windows servers/hosts of database connections fulfilling the following requirements to Spotlight Cloud.

Drilldown on the Windows Server logical and physical disks and top consumers.