Reply to Determining {instance} for DCI Some.Parameter.ScalarValue(*) on Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:19:38 GMT

Hospital — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:19:38 GMT

Thank you for giving really good directions:

@tursiops said in Determining {instance} for DCI Some.Parameter.ScalarValue(*):

You can get a list of available agent lists by right-clicking on a node and selecting (I think) Info->Supported Lists.

Bingo. Then followed by nxget utility and I finally see the instances:

nxget -l my_host Hardware.Processors

@tursiops said in Determining {instance} for DCI Some.Parameter.ScalarValue(*):

you will want to use Instance Discovery.

Yes, I completly agree. Just tested few simple things - it works!

Reply to Determining {instance} for DCI Some.Parameter.ScalarValue(*) on Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:51:06 GMT

Tursiops — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:51:06 GMT

Unless you are looking for a very specific instance, you will want to use Instance Discovery.
In which case you'd configure your DCI using something like FileSystem.FreePerc({instance}) and under Instance Discovery you'd select Agent List as Instance discovery method followed by entering FileSystem.MountPoints as List name.
You can get a list of available agent lists by right-clicking on a node and selecting (I think) Info->Supported Lists. We've changed our menu structure, so not sure what the default is.
For your Hardware.Processor.Family(*), I'd guess the list to use is "Hardware.Processors" (taken from the supported lists on one of my agents).

The whole idea of Instance Discovery is that you don't need to enter every item manually. Nor do you have to worry about what happens when something changes, Instance Discovery runs regularly and will pick new items up and remove old ones (you can configure how long you want to keep the data once an item is no longer found).