The following steps will allow you to monitor any Window Service using the built-in EPO adapter in vROPs 6.1. The EPO agent must be previously installed and communication with vROPs.
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Login to vROPs and click on Environment > Operation Systems
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Select the following
- Expand Operation Systems World > Windows and select your device
- Click on Actions
- Click on Monitor OS Object
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Click on Monitor Windows Service
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Logon to your Windows Server and find the Service name of the service you want to monitor
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Enter the display name and the service name and click on OK
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Expand your machine and you should now see your monitored service. Highlight the service and click on Troubleshooting > All Metrics > Resource Availability to see if any data is collected
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It is now ready to be added to a scoreboard
- Select Adapter types > EP Ops Adapter
- Look for the service we created and select it
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Expand Availability and select Resource Availability and click on Save
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You should now see a nice scoreboard like below.
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Thanks for the step-by-step guides. Do you have some step-by-step guide for vROps 8.1.1 too? Thanks and much appreciated.