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Microsoft Hyper-V Server Agentless Monitoring

Formerly known as Windows Server Virtualization, Hyper-V is Microsoft’s popular virtualization system for Windows Servers. It provides virtualization software for operating systems as well as hardware components such as, hard drives and network switches. Virtualization and Hyper-V offer numerous benefits, such as; hardware resources savings, space savings and reductions in energy costs, amongst many others. As a result it has become an incredibly popular hypervisor across the globe.

What You Can Monitor

This opspack allows you to monitor your host and guest systems, ensuring they are performant on all of your Windows Servers, providing service checks for CPU, Memory, Storage and Uptime, as well as important information on health statuses.

Service Checks

Service Check	Description
CPU	Hyper-V guest CPU load percentage
GuestStatus	Hyper-V Guest Status
Health	Hyper-V guest health status
Memory	Hyper-V guest memory available
StorageErrors	Hyper-V guest storage errors
StorageRead	Hyper-V guest storage read rate
StorageWrite	Hyper-V guest storage write rate
Uptime Days	Virtual Machine Uptime in Days
Uptime Seconds	Virtual Machine Uptime in Seconds
Virtual Machines	List all Virtual Machines

Prerequisites

Ensure your Opsview Monitor version is at least 6.6.7. Check Opsview Release Notes for the latest version of Opsview Monitor.

Setup Windows Host for Monitoring

To use Windows WMI Agentless Opspacks, the remote windows host must first be configured to allow WMI queries to be run. See: Monitoring Services with WMI.

Setup and Configuration

To configure and utilise this Opspack, you need to add the 'Application - Microsoft - Hyper-V Agentless' Opspack to your Opsview Monitor system.

Step 1: Add the host template

Add the Application - Microsoft Hyper-V Agentless Host Template to your Opsview Monitor host.

For more information, refer to Opsview Knowledge Center - Adding Host Templates to Hosts.

Step 2: Add and configure variables required for this host

Variable	Description
WINRM_TRANSPORT	Used for authenticating with the remote host. The Value is the Authentication Transport Type - must be one of: Basic, Certificate, Kerberos or NTLM. NOTE: CredSSP is not supported. Override the Username and Password with the credentials to be used for authentication with the remote host. Scheme can be overridden to make the check use HTTP (defaults to https). Extra arguments can be used to pass extra arguments to check_by_winrm.py
KERBEROS_REALM	Only required if authenticating using Kerberos. The Value is the Kerberos realm.

Variable

Description

WINRM_TRANSPORT

Used for authenticating with the remote host. The Value is the Authentication Transport Type - must be one of: Basic, Certificate, Kerberos or NTLM. NOTE: CredSSP is not supported. Override the Username and Password with the credentials to be used for authentication with the remote host. Scheme can be overridden to make the check use HTTP (defaults to https). Extra arguments can be used to pass extra arguments to check_by_winrm.py

KERBEROS_REALM

Only required if authenticating using Kerberos. The Value is the Kerberos realm.