Operating System Integration

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.

The following operating system versions are supported for application discovery:

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:

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.