Monitoring Technology Dashboard for Windows
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Summary of Monitoring Technology Dashboard for Windows
The Windows Monitoring Technology Dashboard allows you to effectively monitor the health and performance of your Windows infrastructure. It highlights the configuration items (CIs) and servers with the highest resource consumption and displays the most recent active alerts, aiding in proactive management of your systems.
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Key Features
- Displays the top five CIs and servers with the highest metrics over the last six hours.
- Shows the 50 most recent active alerts on your Windows servers.
- Customizable dashboard options, including time range and specific metric filters.
- Detailed metrics available for analysis, such as Processor Queue Length, CPU Load, and Disk Usage.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing the Windows Monitoring Technology Dashboard, you can:
- Quickly identify and address performance issues within your Windows environment.
- Access real-time insights into server health and active alerts, facilitating timely responses.
- Customize the dashboard for tailored monitoring experiences and specific operational needs.
Prerequisites
- Ensure you are in the Agent Client Collector Monitoring scope in ServiceNow.
- Verify that the roles agentclientcollectoradmin and dashboardadmin are enabled.
- Enable Metric Intelligence on the MID Server.
- Activate the Windows OS Events and Windows OS Metrics policies for metric to CI mapping.
- Ensure clotho plugin version 1.19.0.10 or above is enabled.
Next Steps
To access the dashboard, navigate to All > AIOps Dashboards > Monitoring Technology Dashboards and select Windows Server. You can then interact with widgets to view data points and customize the dashboard according to your monitoring needs.
With the Windows Monitoring Technology Dashboard, you can monitor the health and performance of your Windows infrastructure. The dashboard enables you to identify the CIs and servers in your system with the highest resource consumption, and also the most recent active alerts.
Monitoring Technology Dashboard for Windows overview
The Monitoring Technology Dashboard for Windows shows the five CIs and servers with the highest metric readouts during the past six hours. The dashboard also shows the 50 most recent active alerts on your OS's servers.
To view the dashboard, navigate to and select Windows Server.
Using the Monitoring Technology Dashboard for Windows
- Ensure that you’re working in the Agent Client Collector Monitoring scope in your ServiceNow instance.
- Ensure that the agent_client_collector_admin and dashboard_admin roles are enabled.
- Enable Metric Intelligence on the MID Server.
- Ensure that the Windows OS Events and Windows OS Metrics policies are enabled:
Enabling these policies activates metric to CI mapping.
- Ensure that the clotho plugin version 1.19.0.10 or above is enabled.
- After upgrading from a previous version, follow the procedure described in the ACC-M Dashboard Filters are not working when upgraded from Tokyo/Utah to Vancouver [KB1438042] article in the NOW Support Knowledge Base.
To view the dashboard, navigate to and select Windows Server.
Point to the relevant widget to view a specific point of data and all of its details in a pop-up window. Select the Alerts tab to view the 50 most recent active alerts for CIs.
| Filter name | Description |
|---|---|
| Time range filter | The time range for which you want metric data to display on the dashboard. |
| Metrics by selected CI filter | The CIs for which you want metric data to display on the dashboard. |
| Metrics by selected OS filter | The OS for which you want metric data to display on the dashboard. |
On the right side of widgets displaying a single metric, you can select the More options icon (
) and select Change group by. Select the category that you want to view the metric by: Host name, Class, Operating System, or OS Version.
Windows server dashboard
- Processor Queue Length
- CPU Load
- System Uptime
- CPU Core
- RAM Usage
- Network Bandwidth
- Memory Distribution
- Network Flow
- Disk Usage
- Disk Read/Write
- Disk Distribution
You can customize the appearance of the individual widgets on the Windows Monitoring Technology Dashboard. For example, you could change the timeframe for which the alerts appear. You can also include customized widgets when you are creating a custom dashboard. For more information, see Customize the Monitoring Technology Dashboard.