1. Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Plug-in User's Guide
  2. Discovering the Microsoft IIS Target

2 Discovering the Microsoft IIS Target

This chapter describes how to discover your Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) target with Enterprise Manager.

The following topics are provided:

Discovering Microsoft IIS Targets

After successfully deploying the plug-in, follow these steps to add the plug-in target to Enterprise Manager for central monitoring and management:

  1. Log in to Enterprise Manager.
  2. Click Setup, then Add Targets, and finally Add Targets Manually.
  3. In the Add Targets Manually page, select Add Target Manually under Add Non-Host Targets Manually, select Target Type as Microsoft IIS, select a Monitoring Agent and click Add Manually.
  4. In the Add Microsoft IIS page, provide the Target Name and click OK

Adding Targets with EMCLI

To add Microsoft IIS targets with EMCLI, use the add_target verb.

For example:
emcli.bat add_target 
    -name=”IIS Target” 
    -type=”microsoft_iis” 
    -host=”HostTargetName”

You will need to specify the following options:

  • Target name: *-name*

    It must begin with an alphabetic character contain only alphanumeric characters, multibyte characters, a space, -, _, ., :, /, (, ) and have a maximum length of 256 characters.

  • Target type: *-type*

    Always use "oracle_jboss" (including the quotes).

  • Host name: *-host*

    Network name of the machine running the Management Agent that is collecting data for this target instance.

Verifying and Validating the Plug-in

After waiting a few minutes for the plug-in to start collecting data, use the following steps to verify and validate that Enterprise Manager is properly monitoring the plug-in target:
  1. Click the Microsoft IIS target link from the All Targets page.
  2. Verify no metric collection errors are reported by clicking Monitoring and then Metric Collection Errors from the Target menu.
  3. Ensure that reports can be seen, and no errors are reported by clicking Information Publisher Reports in the Target menu and viewing reports for the Microsoft IIS target type.
  4. Ensure that configuration data can be seen by clicking Configuration and then Last Collected in the Target menu. If configuration data does not immediately appear, click Refresh in the Latest Configuration page.