SAM component monitors
As described in the SAM Administrator Guide, SAM includes predefined component monitors, comprised of code and scripts, that you can use to assess the status and performance of applications, services, processes, and event on nodes throughout your environment.
SAM application monitor templates are collections of component monitors that you can assign to nodes as "application monitors" that are also called "applications." A single component monitor can be used on its own and applied to a node in an application monitor, or it can be used in multiple templates.
For example, an HTTPS Monitor is included in the following templates:
For a quick overview, watch Common SAM template elements.
Note the following details about SAM component monitors:
- Some component monitors have specific port requirements.
- WinRM is default transport method for WMI-based component monitors.
- Some component monitors can use SolarWinds Platform agents to collect data.
- Some component monitors do not support polling via SolarWinds Platform Remote Collectors (ORCs).
The following predefined component monitors are included in SAM:
- DHCP User Experience Monitor
- Directory Size Monitor
- DNS Monitor - TCP
- DNS Monitor - UDP
- DNS User Experience Monitor
- Download Speed Monitor
- Exchange Web Services User Experience Monitor
- File Age Monitor
- File Change Monitor
- File Count Monitors
- File Existence Monitor
- File Size Monitor
- FTP Monitor
- FTP User Experience Monitor
- HTTP Form Login Monitor
- HTTP Monitor
- HTTPS Monitor
- IMAP4 monitor
- IMAP4 User Experience monitor
- JMX Monitor
- LDAP User Experience Monitor
- Linux/Unix Script Monitor
- MAPI User Experience Monitor
- Nagios Script Monitor
- NNTP monitor
- ODBC User Experience Monitor
- Oracle User Experience Monitor
- Performance Counter Monitors in SAM
- POP3 Monitor
- POP3 User Experience Monitor
- Process Monitor (SNMP)
- Process Monitors for Windows
- RADIUS User Experience Monitor
- Service Status – SNMP Monitor
- SMTP Monitor
- SNMP Monitor
- SOAP Monitor
- SQL Server User Experience Monitor
- SSL Certificate Expiration Date Monitor
- TACACS+ User Experience Monitor
- TCP Port Monitor
- Tomcat Server Monitors
- VMware Performance Counter Monitor
- Web Link Monitor
- Windows Event Log Monitors
- Windows PowerShell Monitor
- Windows Script Monitors
- Windows Service Monitors
- WMI Monitors
Can't find a suitable component monitor? Use the Component Monitor Wizard to create a custom monitor. You can also use API pollers to gather metrics from remote APIs.
SolarWinds Platform server port requirements for component monitors
WinRM is now the default method used to fetch data for WMI-based component monitors. Per SAM WMI port requirements, open port 5985 for HTTP, or 5986 for HTTPS.
The following table outlines port requirements for SAM component monitors.
| Component monitor | Port | Port type |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| DHCP User Experience Monitor | See Notes. | UDP |
For DHCP requests, the default port is 67 (IPv4) or 547 (IPv6). For DHCP responses, the default port is 68 (IPv4) or 546 (IPv6). |
| Directory Size Monitor |
See SAM WMI requirements. |
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| 53 | TCP/UDP | Used for DNS queries. | |
| Download Speed Monitor | 19 | Used for the character generator service. | |
| ESX Hardware Monitoring | 5989 | Used to collect vCenter data via API. | |
|
File Age Monitor File Change Monitor File Existence Monitor File Size Monitor File Count Monitor |
445 |
See SAM WMI requirements and Poll devices with SolarWinds SolarWinds Platform agents. |
|
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FTP Monitor FTP User Experience Monitor |
21 | Used for FTP sessions. | |
|
HTTP Form Login Monitor HTTP Monitor TCP Port Monitor |
80 | Used for HTTP form-based login sessions. | |
| HTTPS Monitor | 443 | Used to test a web server's ability to accept incoming sessions over a secure channel and then transmit the requested page. | |
| IMAP4 Monitor | 143 (default) | IMAP4 | Used for IMAP 4 sessions. |
| 585 | IMAP4 | Used for Secure IMAP (IMAP4-SSL) sessions. | |
| 993 | IMAP4 | Used for IMAP4 over SSL (IMAPS) sessions. | |
| IMAP4 User Experience Monitor | 25 | SMTP | Used to communicate with a Microsoft Exchange mail server. |
| 143 | IMAP4 | ||
| 993 | IMAP4 | ||
| LDAP User Experience Monitor | 389 | Used for LDAP connections. | |
| 636 | Used for LDAP connections over SSL, with default port 636. | ||
| Linux/Unix Script Monitor Ports | 22 | Used for SSH connections. | |
| NNTP Monitor | 119 | UDP | Used for Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) connections. |
| ODBC User Experience Monitor | 1630 | TCP |
To configure ODBC to use the SolarWinds Platform Agent, see Configure Linux/Unix systems for monitoring by the SolarWinds Platform agent in SAM. |
| Oracle User Experience Monitor | 1521 | TCP | Configure the Oracle SQL*Net Listener to allow Oracle Client connections to the database with the SQL*Net protocol during installation. You can also use the Oracle Net Configuration Assistant. |
| 1526 | |||
| Performance Counter Monitor | See Description. | TCP |
For monitors configured to use RPC instead of WinRM, open the following ports:
|
| POP3 Monitor | See Description. |
This monitor uses the following ports to communicate with Microsoft Exchange mail servers:
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POP3 Monitor POP3 User Experience Monitor |
110 (default) | Used for POP3 connections. | |
| 995 | Used for Secure POP3 (SSL-POP) connections. | ||
| 25 | SMTP | Used for SMTP sessions. | |
| Process Monitor |
SNMP |
Uses SNMP communication. |
|
| Process Monitor - Windows |
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Used to test if a specified Windows process is running and reports statistics about all instances of the process. |
|
| RADIUS User Experience Monitor |
1812 1645 |
Used to authenticate RADIUS protocols, along with port 1813. Cisco devices may require port 1645 or 1646. |
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| RWHOIS Port Monitor | 4321 | Used to test the ability of a Referral Whois (RWhois) server to accept incoming sessions. | |
| SMTP Monitor | 465 | SMTP | Used for Secure SMTP (SSMTP). |
| SNMP Monitor | 444 | SNMP | Used to test the ability of an SNMP server to accept incoming sessions. |
| SQL Server User Experience Monitor | 1433 | By default, SQL Server uses port 1433. To use a different port, use the ODBC User Experience Monitor instead, and manually define a connection string for the port. | |
| TACACS+User Experience Monitor | 49 | Used for TACACS+ protocol connections. | |
| Tomcat Server Monitor | 8080 | Used to collect status the Apache Tomcat status website. | |
| VMware Performance Counter Monitor | 443 | Used to communicate with the VMware API. | |
| Windows Event Log Monitor |
Uses the following ports:
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SAM WMI port requirements
Starting in SAM 2020.2, WinRM is the default transport method for WMI-based component monitors that gather data from target nodes for component monitors. A fallback mechanism automatically switches to legacy RPC/DCOM polling, if necessary. Component monitors that use WinRM require a single open port: 5985 (HTTP), or 5986 (HTTPS).
In SAM 2019.4 or earlier, you may need to create firewall exceptions to allow bidirectional TCP/UDP traffic on those ports to support component monitors that use WMI. If wide ranges of open ports present security concerns, you can either:
- Upgrade to the latest version of SAM, or
- Use SolarWinds Platform agents for polling.
The following component monitors use WMI:
- Performance Counter Monitor
- Process Monitor – WMI*
- Windows Event Log Monitor
- Windows PowerShell Monitor*
- Windows Script Monitor
- Windows Service Monitor*
* Required if scripts use WMI
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