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Operating System Integration

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The Operating System Integration interacts with physical and virtual machines for application discovery and operating system monitoring. To these ends, IO communicates directly with the machines to collect information and statistics, using WMI for those running Windows operating systems, and using SSH for those running various flavors of UNIX.

For application discovery, IO collects information from servers about the services (such as database and app servers) that are running on an operating system, its resources, as well as the IP addresses with which it is communicating. Application discovery is not performed on Windows domain controllers.

Note

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) only identifies physical Network Interfaces for which the MAC address of the Bonded NIC is the same as the MAC address of the physical NIC. This results in physical NICs not being reported as children of a NIC bonded to multiple physical NICs. Therefore, the relationship between a Windows Bonded NIC and its children cannot be reported in IO topology views or entity inventory pages.

The following operating system versions are supported for application discovery:

  • Linux

    • Ubuntu (16.0.4.2, 17.0.4)

    • SUSE (11, 12)

    • CentOS (6.8, 7.4)

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (6.9)

    • Oracle Linux (6.9)

    • Debian (9)

    • Solaris 10 and 11 (64-bit)

  • Windows

    • Windows Server 2019

    • Windows 2016

    • Windows 2012 R2

    • Windows 2008 R2 Standard

For operating system monitoring, IO collects information about the operating system's compute, storage, and networking resources, and collects metrics for these resources.

The following versions of operating systems are supported for operating system monitoring:

  • Linux

    • Ubuntu (16.0.4.2, 17.0.4)

    • SUSE (11, 12)

    • CentOS (6.8, 7.4)

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (6.9)

    • Oracle Linux (6.9)

    • Debian (9)

LVM implemented on top of multipath devices on Linux is not supported. IO does not discover or collect metrics for operating system instances with this configuration.

  • Windows

    • Windows Server 2019

    • Windows 2016

    • Windows 2012 R2

    • Windows 2008 R2 Standard

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