Use this Knowledge Script to discover Microsoft Windows configuration and resource information, including related resources such as network services, printers, and .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) objects.
Discover Windows resources before discovering clustered applications, if applicable in your environment. For more information, see Discovery_Cluster.
This script discovers shared disks under the Cluster Alias object in the Navigation pane or the TreeView and local disks under regular Windows server objects.
To discover all shared disks in a Windows cluster and the shared mount points rooted from those shared disks under the Cluster Alias object in the Navigation pane or the TreeView, make sure that the NetIQ Client Resource Monitor service (NetIQmc) is running under an account whose user is a member of the domain of the computer. If the NetIQmc service is running under an account that is not a domain account but is a member of the local Administrators group on the agent, review the following procedures on the Securing a Remote WMI Connection page from Microsoft to ensure the Discovery_NT script can gather the required disk information:
To grant DCOM remote launch and activation permissions for a user or group
To grant DCOM remote access permissions
If you delete or add a resource object, or if you make any other kind of change that might affect the monitoring of your resources, run the Discovery_NT Knowledge Script again to update your list of resource objects. In addition, if you are running this module on AppManager 8 or higher, you can use the delta discovery feature in Control Center to run discovery on a schedule to more quickly detect changes to your environment.
Windows 2003 Server or later
By default, this script is only run once for each computer.
Set the following parameters as needed:
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Event Notification |
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Event severity when discovery fails |
Set the event severity level, from 1 to 40, to reflect the importance of an event in which discovery fails. This script always raises an event when the job fails for any reason. The default is 10. |
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Raise event when discovery succeeds? |
Select Yes to raise an event when discovery succeeds. The default is unselected. |
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Event severity when discovery succeeds |
Set the event severity level, from 1 to 40, to reflect the importance of an event in which discovery succeeds. The default is 35. |
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Discovery Options |
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Discover accessible printers? |
Select Yes to discover accessible printers on the specified computer. Deselect the check box to disable the discovery of all printers if you have a large number of printers for a single AppManager agent to prevent the discovery process from timing out while trying to discover all the printers. The default is unselected. |
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Discover .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) objects? |
Select Yes to discover .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) objects. If you select Yes and enable delta discovery, the delta discovery process might generate an excessive number of events that are not significant, because the list of applications that use CLR can change quite often. The default is unselected. |
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Discover Microsoft BITS Jobs? |
Select Yes to discover Microsoft BITS jobs. Selecting Yes might block successful completion of discovery if the BITS jobs are exceedingly high. The default is Yes. |
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Discover DFS Link Objects? |
Select Yes to discover DFS link objects. Deselect the check box to skip the discovery of DFS link objects. The default is Yes. |