Monitoring Windows Services from BIG-IP

Community MVP hwidjaja dropped a bomb-sized nugget of wisdom in the forums last week that I would be remiss if I didn’t write up and share with the greater community at large.  Zenoss has a WMI execu...
Published Dec 28, 2010
Version 1.0
application delivery
BIG-IP
monitoring
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Jan 11, 2018

Make sure to grab the right CentOS version for your BIG-IP. The updated steps assuming CentOS 6.4 and the zenoss wmi pack source availability are:

  1. Download CentOS 6.4 and install vm
  2. Install gcc and autoconf
  3. Download wmic 1.3.14
  4. Extract, then make with command: 
    make "CPP=gcc -E -ffreestanding"