About the Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows

The Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows provides the elements necessary for monitoring your OS health related to Windows servers. It uses the heavy or universal forwarder and an add-on to collect and send data to event indexes. This content pack relies on the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Windows, where the collected data is sent to event indexes. For more information, see the Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Windows.

The content pack includes a preconfigured service template for monitoring OS health metrics for CPU, memory, disk, and network. The KPIs in the service template are configured for general purposes only and must be tuned to accommodate your specific use case

Content pack contents

This content pack contains the following objects:

• OS-level KPIs
• Eight KPI base searches:
  • OS:Performance.WIN.CPU
  • OS:Performance.WIN.LogicalDisk
  • OS:Performance.WIN.Memory
  • OS:Performance.WIN.Network
  • OS:Performance.WIN.PhysicalDisk
  • OS:Performance.WIN.Process
  • OS:Performance.WIN.System
  • OS:Performance.WIN.WinHostMon
• A service template: Windows server health
• A sample service to use for testing entity filtering and KPI thresholds: SAMPLE - Windows server health to use for testing entity filtering and KPI thresholds.

ITSI and ITE Work support

The content in the Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows is only supported in ITSI.

Installation

If you're using ITSI version 4.9 or later, you can install the Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows after installing the Splunk App for Content Packs. Install the content pack on the same search head where you installed ITSI. For installation instructions, see Install and configure the Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows.

If you're using ITSI version 4.8 or earlier, you need to install the content pack using the backup ZIP file. For installation instructions, see Install and configure the Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows.

Deployment requirements

Use the following table to determine ITSI version compatibility with various versions of the Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows:

Content pack version	ITSI version
1.0.1	4.7.0 or higher
1.0.0	4.2.1 - 4.6.2

Additional resources

• For ITSI deployment planning guidelines, see Plan your ITSI deployment in the Install and Upgrade Splunk IT Service Intelligence manual.
• For ITSI version compatibility with Splunk Enterprise versions, see Splunk products version compatibility matrix.
• For data collection requirements for this content pack, see Data requirements for the Content Pack for Monitoring Microsoft Windows.