Installing and Configuring a Probe in a Distributed Computing Environment

A system, comprising:

• a memory operable to store instructions, the instructions comprising a set of pre-defined rules for determining, in response to the first and second sets of discovery information, a metric associated with the host device to be monitored;
• a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable, upon executing the instructions, to:
• access, in response to a request to monitor a host device, a first set of discovery information associated with the host device, the first set of discovery information indicating at least one characteristic of the host device;
• determine, based on the first set of discovery information, a second set of discovery information associated with the host device;
• determine, based on the first and second sets of discovery information and based on the set of pre-defined rules, a metric associated with the host device to be monitored;
• and
• an interface operable to communicate, based on the metric to be monitored, an installation package to the host device, the installation package comprising a probe, the probe configured to monitor the metric.

A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising:

• computer-readable program code configured to access, in response to a request to monitor a host device, a first set of discovery information associated with the host device, the first set of discovery information indicating at least one characteristic of the host device;
• computer-readable program code configured to determine, based on the first set of discovery information, a second set of discovery information associated with the host device;
• computer-readable program code configured to determine, based on the first and second sets of discovery information and one or more pre-defined rules, a metric associated with the host device to be monitored;
• and
• computer-readable program code configured to communicate, based on the metric to be monitored, an installation package to the host device, the installation package comprising a probe, the probe configured to monitor the metric.