Configuration

The Whatap agent writes the necessary settings for each agent in whatap.conf. The agent locates and loads the configuration file through the environment variables. The options that can be set through the whatap.conf file are as follows:

Agent name identification

The following explains how to set the agent name in order to identify the monitoring target.

Agent communication settings

It describes the connection settings between the agent and the server.

Configuring the Windows performance counter

It explains how to configure the Windows performance counter.

Preventing the agent overload

It provides a method to configure the related agents to minimize the impact on resource usage of user servers when any overload occurs.