JDBC Active Discovery

The JDBC Active Discovery method is used to detect whether databases are running on certain ports, and to filter them based on responses to SQL queries. It can also be used to create instances based on arbitrary SQL queries, that can be used to collect more detail about objects. Parameters Once you set the Active … Continued

HTTP Active Discovery

When configuring a multi-instance DataSource, you have the option of enabling Active Discovery and subsequently defining the protocol (e.g. SNMP, WMI, HTTP, etc.) employed by Active Discovery to find instances. In this support article, we’ll overview the HTTP Active Discovery method, its various parameters, and the two modes it supports: HTTP Active Discovery Parameters Extracting … Continued

Script Active Discovery

LogicMonitor’s pre-defined Active Discovery methods, such as SNMP, WMI, and HTTP, are suitable for most applications. But in some cases you may need to use a script to discover DataSource instances. Script Active Discovery Approach Discovering DataSource instances using a script is straightforward. Here’s a high-level overview of what you need to do: Navigate to … Continued

Port Active Discovery

The Active Discovery port method attempts a TCP connection on a list of ports, and returns the ports that respond as instances, using the port value as both the Wildcard Alias and Wildcard Value.     Parameters 1.   Port # List (required) a list of ports. This could be: a single port, e.g. 80 … Continued

Perfmon Active Discovery

LogicMonitor can query Windows servers for the presence of Performance Monitor (Perfmon) counters and classes. There are two methods of using Perfmon based Active Discovery – by discovering all the instances of a particular class, or by discovering all the classes that match a regular expression. To discover all instances of a particular class of … Continued

SNMP Active Discovery

The SNMP Active Discovery method is used to detect and group SNMP objects.  As with all other Active Discovery methods, it also supports filtering.  SNMP Active Discovery will walk a given SNMP OID, and return all objects beneath that branch of the MIB tree as the wildcard value (without the common base OID). The Alias … Continued

JMX Active Discovery

JMX Active Discovery can discover: All instances of a specified MBean object Instances based on attributes of a fully specified MBean JMX Active Discovery can also discover multiple Java instances on a device listening on multiple ports, and then discover all the objects on each port, creating an array of objects. Device properties jmx.user and … Continued

NetApp Active Discovery

NetApp Active Discovery is used to discover instances by means of the NetApp OnTAP API. There are two distinct methods of NetApp Active Discovery: Performance Object – a simpler method suitable for discovering instances where the returned results do not include duplicate Name values, and includes some pre-defined instance grouping methods XML – a more flexible discovery … Continued

What Is Active Discovery?

Active Discovery is the process by which LogicMonitor determines all of the similar components of a particular type on a given system. The output of an Active Discovery process is one or more instances for which LogicMonitor can collect a particular type of data. Instances are organized under their parent DataSources in the Resources tree. … Continued