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Now, Windows performance counters are commonly used when tracking data on a Windows system, Orion

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doesn't natively use this, but you can use a module to leverage WMI to retrieve perfmon counters.

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There are many perfmon values available, including processor,

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memory, logical disk and others.

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As an example for ICMP, you'll be able to see messages received, transmitted errors, and so forth.

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The key thing to remember about WMI is that it's very different to SNMP allowing WMI through the

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network and then specifically making sure that you have permissions set correctly are usually the issues

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that slow people down when using the WMI protocol.