Bare Metal
Bare Metal is the default server monitoring module of VirtualMetric. VirtualMetric uses standardized performance counters, so you can monitor Windows, VMware and Linux servers on same charts and reports.
You can reach Bare Metal module monitoring and reports via left menu.
Module Reports
VirtualMetric collects following inventory reports for Bare Metal module.
Hardware: General
OS Name
OS Version
Manufacturer
Model
Serial Number
Management IP Address
Chassis Name
Chassis Slot
Chassis IP Address
Chassis Serial Number
Power Plan
UAC Status
Firewall Status
Last Reboot Date
Pending UpdateHardware: Processor
Hardware: Memory
Hardware: Volume
Hardware: Disk Drive
Hardware: Array Controller
Hardware: HBA
Hardware: Network Adapter
Hardware: FAN
Hardware: Power Supply
Server Reports
Module Counters
VirtualMetric collects following performance counters for Bare Metal module.
Processor
Memory
Network
Storage
System
Event Log
Authentication
Session
Update
User Permissions
If you want to use non-privileged user for VirtualMetric, you need to do following changes for the user account.
Windows User Permissions
User Group Membership
Go to user properties and add groups into Member Of section:
Remote Management Users group is required for remote agentless connection. Alternatively, you can restrict the user with readonly permissions. Open PowerShell console and type following command:
Type y and press Enter to continue.
Add the user and select Read and Execute permissions. Click Submit to apply changes.
PowerShell will ask you to restart WinRM service. Type y and press Enter to confirm.
After this operation, you can remove Remote Management Users from the user membership.
Security Logs Permissions
To collect security logs you need to give acces to following Registry key for VirtualMetric user.
WMI Security Permissions
Go to Computer Manager to set WMI security permissions.
Right click on WMI Control and click Properties to open dialog.
Go to Security tab, select CIMV2 and click Security button.
Add your user account and select Allow permission for Enable Account and Remote Enable properties and select Advanced.
Select user and click Edit.
Select This namespace and subnamespaces and click OK button.
Please repeat the steps for the other WMI namespaces on the list.
Windows Firewall Configuration
Enable Remote Administration on Windows Firewall:
Service Control Manager Configuration
You need to open CMD window to configure security descriptor for Service Control Manager. Type following command on CMD:
You will see default security descriptor of the Service Control Manager.
Find the security descriptor for VirtualMetric user:
And create the following key:
Update the Security Description via following command with VirtualMetric user key added:
You need to restart WinRM service to activate security description changes.
Linux User Permissions
Creating User
Please make sure to use "-m" parameter to create users home directory. If your user does not have access to "/tmp" folder you need to specify tmp path while adding the host to VirtualMetric. Example: "/home/virtualmetric/tmp"
After creating the user you can set user password like below;
For some of data collection you can add the following executable file paths to sudoers file.
To find the file path you can use "which" command and add the outpath directory to sudoers.
To add the file permission to sudo you can use visudo (visudo will check for any type errors in case there is any instead of directly editing the "/etc/sudoers" file. )
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