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

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

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

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 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 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

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