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16 Dell Compellent Storage Center Management Pack 3.0 for Microsoft SCOM 2012/R2 Best Practices
Note: The Storage Center data displayed in performance dashboards is collected every 15 minutes.
Storage Center data displayed in usage dashboards is collected every 12 hours. Both performance and
usage collection intervals can be changed with overrides.
4.4 WMI Provider
The WMI Provider folder contains health information about any discovered data collectors and WMI
Providers. In most cases, the WMI Provider will be installed on the data collector (Enterprise Manager)
server, meaning a single SCOM monitoring agent can detect and report the WMI Provider installation and
server health information back to SCOM.
Figure 6 WMI provider folder
The Data Collectors folder will only contain the health status of the Data Collector server defined within
the WMI Provider.
Figure 7 Data collector detail