Advanced system configuration and troubleshooting

This section contains platform-specific configuration information for configuring Foglight Agent Manager on Windows when using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or Windows Remote Management (WinRM) for remote monitoring access.

WMI and WinRM are two different mechanisms that monitoring agents can use to establish remote connections. In most scenarios, only one of these mechanisms needs to be configured. The preferred mechanism is WinRM because of WMI scalability limitations.

This section also describes platform-specific instructions for configuring the Foglight Agent Manager on UNIX.

This section covers the following areas: