Overview

It can be used for physical disk discovery and their performance data collection, network interface discovery, Hyper-V guest discovery, monitoring Windows services and many other things in Windows OS.

This type of low-level discovery is done using WQL queries whose results get automatically transformed into a JSON object suitable for low-level discovery.

Item key

This item transforms the query result into a JSON array. For example:

may return something like this:

Low-level discovery macros

Even though no low-level discovery macros are created in the returned JSON, these macros can be defined by the user as an additional step, using the custom LLD macro functionality with JSONPath pointing to the discovered values in the returned JSON.

The macros then can be used to create item, trigger, etc prototypes.