Register Windows hosts

You can register Microsoft Windows hosts to collect system health and performance metrics, such as CPU speed and available memory.

Note:

Each host must have its own installation of ArcGIS Monitor Agent. Once Monitor Agent is registered with Monitor Server, the host is automatically registered for monitoring.

Prerequisites for monitoring

The Windows host must be running a version of the Windows operating system that is supported by Microsoft.

Register Windows hosts for monitoring

You must be assigned the Administrator or Manager role to register components.

To register a Windows host component, complete the following steps:

1. Install Monitor Agent on the Windows host machine that you want to register.
2. Open a command prompt window on the Monitor Agent machine.
3. Run the command below, editing the command line parameters to include the root URL to Monitor Server and your username and password.

   <Monitor Agent installation location>\arcgis-monitor-agent.exe admin:system:register --server-url <https://monitorserver.domain.com:30443/arcgis> --username <user> --password <password>

   The following is an example:

   "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Monitor\Agent\arcgis-monitor-agent.exe" admin:system:register --server-url https://monitorserver.domain.com:30443/arcgis --username jdoe --password "my password"

   The Monitor Agent instance is registered with Monitor Server. The host machine is automatically registered as a Windows host component and added to the list of monitored components on the Monitoring page.

Once a component is registered, you can configure alert rules and add the component to collections.

Note:

Other software component types, such as ArcGIS software and databases, are automatically discovered on the host machine and must be registered individually to enable monitoring.

Observers

The following table describes the observers that are responsible for collecting attribute and metric data:

Observer name	Description
Inventory	The Inventory observer scans for changes and manages attribute data across the Windows host. The default interval for this observer is 15 minutes; however, you can configure it to run at longer intervals since changes to the host's configuration are typically infrequent.
Metrics	The Metrics observer collects Windows host metric data. The default interval for this observer is 1 minute to retrieve data frequently. It is recommended that you do not run this observer at longer intervals.

Collected attributes

The subsections below describe the attributes that are collected for Windows hosts.

Host attributes

The following table lists the attributes that are collected for Windows hosts:

Attribute name	Description	Data type
Class	The instance type (virtual or physical)	String
CPU cores logical	The CPU's total number of logical cores	Integer
CPU cores physical	The CPU's total number of physical cores	Integer
CPU name	The CPU name and model information	String
CPU speed	The speed of the CPU	Float
Memory total	The host's total amount of memory (RAM)	Float
Network speed	The speed of the network	Integer
Started at	The date and time the host was last started	Datetime
UTC offset	The host's UTC time zone offset	Integer
Version	The software version of the operating system	String

Storage attributes

The following table lists the attributes that are collected for a Windows host's storage resources:

Attribute name	Description	Data type
Storage total	The size of the volume	Float

Collected metrics

The subsections below describe the metrics that are collected for Windows hosts.

Host metrics

The following table lists the metrics collected for Windows hosts:

Metric name	Description	Data type	Unit
Connectivity	The agent's ability to successfully connect to the component.	Float	Percent
CPU Cores Utilized	The number of logical CPU cores in use.	Float	Total
CPU Utilized	The proportion of CPU resources in use. Values approaching 100 percent may indicate that more resources are needed to handle the workload.	Float	Percent
Memory Available	The total amount of memory.	Float	Gigabytes
Memory Used	The amount of physical memory in use.	Float	Gigabytes
Memory Utilized	The proportion of memory in use. Values approaching 100 percent may indicate that more resources are needed to handle the workload.	Float	Percent
Network Incoming	The rate of network data received.	Float	Megabits/second
Network Incoming Utilized	The proportion of incoming network bandwidth in use.	Float	Percent
Network Outgoing	The rate of network data sent.	Float	Megabits/second
Network Outgoing Utilized	The proportion of outgoing network bandwidth in use.	Float	Percent
Pagefile Available	The total pagefile or swap memory resources available.	Float	Gigabytes
Pagefile Used	The total pagefile or swap memory resources in use.	Float	Gigabytes
Pagefile Utilized	The proportion of pagefile or swap memory resources in use.	Float	Percent
Terminal Sessions	The total number of terminal sessions.	Float	Total
Terminal Sessions Active	The total number of active terminal sessions.	Float	Total
Terminal Sessions Inactive	The total number of inactive terminal sessions.	Float	Total

Process metrics

Monitor collects information about the following processes:

• arcgispro.exe
• arcmap.exe
• arccatalog.exe
• arcgisserver.exe
• arcsoc.exe
• arcgisportal.exe
• geoeventserver.exe
• python.exe
• powershell.exe
• sqlserver.exe
• postgres.exe
• oracle.exe

The following table lists the metrics collected for a Windows host's processes:

Metric name	Description	Data type	Unit
Process CPU Utilized	The proportion of CPU resources in use by the process. Values approaching 100 percent may indicate that more resources are needed to handle the workload.	Float	Percent
Process Instances	The number of process instances that are running.	Float	Total
Process Memory Used	The amount of memory resources in use by the process.	Float	Gigabytes
Process Memory Utilized	The proportion of memory in use by the process. Values approaching 100 percent may indicate that more resources are needed to handle the workload.	Float	Percent

Storage metrics

The following table lists the metrics collected for a Windows host's storage resources:

Metric name	Description	Data type
Storage Capacity Available	The amount of available storage space	Float	Gigabytes
Storage Capacity Used	The amount of storage space in use	Float	Gigabytes
Storage Capacity Utilized	The proportion of storage capacity in use	Float	Percent
Storage Read Rate	The speed at which data is read from the disk	Float	Gigabytes/second
Storage Write Rate	The speed at which data is written to the disk	Float	Gigabytes/second

Default alert rules

The following table lists the default alert rules that are configured for Windows hosts:

Metric name	Aggregation	Operator	Info threshold	Warning threshold	Critical threshold	Samples
Connectivity	Average	Is less than	—	—	100	2
CPU Utilized	Average	Is greater than	—	75	90	3
Memory Utilized	Average	Is greater than	—	75	90	3
Pagefile Utilized	Average	Is greater than	—	75	90	3
Process CPU Utilized	Average	Is greater than	—	75	90	3
Process Memory Utilized	Average	Is greater than	—	75	90	3
Storage Capacity Utilized	Average	Is greater than	—	75	90	3

Note:

The default alert rules in the table above are the rules that are configured for components when Monitor is first deployed. If your Monitor administrator has configured default alert rules for the Monitor deployment, the values for the rules above may vary.