Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of Hybrid Cloud Observability and is also available in a standalone module, Server & Application Monitor (SAM). Hybrid Cloud Observability and SAM are built on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform.

Set up PowerShell on target servers in SAM

PowerShell is included in most versions of Windows Server but you can install it, if necessary. To ensure that SAM can execute PowerShell commands against remote, target servers configured as managed nodes, you'll need to verify that:

Depending on how it's used, PowerShell can make your deployment vulnerable to unauthorized access. For details, see Use PowerShell in SAM.

An easy way to add PowerShell to a target server is to configure AppInsight for IIS on the node, which you can do in several ways: