The Windows System uses the Window Perfmon functionality to gather system counters and return them to the workbench. A sufficiently privileged user must run the Agent Controller so that this data can be collected through the Windows Perfmon API.
In order to monitor a Windows System, ensure that the Agent Controller is running on the system and specify the hostname of this system in the Host Tab of the agent launch configuration. In the Agent Tab select Windows System Trace (Perfmon) from the agent list. The Settings tab for this agent is shown below:
The settings tab for the Windows System contains three agent specific settings used to gather Windows performance statistics from a remote machine, where a remote machine refers to a machine other than the Agent Controller host.
Therefore if the Agent Controller is on host A, the Remote Hostname variable is set to host B, and host A has a drive mapped to host B, then Perfmon counters can be gathered from host B through host A without the Agent Controller running on host A. This provides flexibility in situations where an Agent Controller install is an issue.
This remote machine address is specified using the Remote Hostname setting. In order to gather remote statistics, the Agent Controller host must have a connection established with the remote machine. The Windows agent is able to establish a connection if one does not exist, or to use an existing connection. When establishing a new connection, the agent will use the specified Username and Password as authentication details.
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