Monitoring CPU temperature, fan velocity, smart hdd on Windows XP/NT...

Anthony Montibello amontibello at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 04:50:44 CET 2008


These items may also be monitored via WMI  (If Windows has the drivers that
report to WMI)
for example usualy SMART HDD is availible via WMI

Tony (Author of NC_NEt)

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:03 AM, James Pratt <jpratt at norwich.edu> wrote:

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>   -----Original Message-----
> From: 44kbps 44kbps [mailto:44kbps at gmail.com <44kbps at gmail.com>]
> Sent: Tue 12/30/2008 8:27 AM
> To: Gary Danko
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring CPU temperature, fan velocity,smart
> hdd on Windows XP/NT...
>
> Ok, thanks.
>
> I wrote a post into the NSClient++ explaining this case, I didn't find the
> e-mail users list of nsclient++...
>
> Now I haven't more knolegments for developping this plugin, but I found
> some
> information:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394493.aspx
> http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=48638
>
> 2008/12/29 Gary Danko <bitbucket92029-lists at yahoo.com>
>
> > You'd need to set up a passive check and write a plugin for the fan info
> > and smart status. NSClient++ can gather perfmon data but neither of those
> is
> > in perfmon.
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > *From:* 44kbps 44kbps <44kbps at gmail.com>
> > *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > *Sent:* Monday, December 29, 2008 11:24:01 AM
> > *Subject:* [Nagios-users] Monitoring CPU temperature, fan velocity, smart
> > hdd on Windows XP/NT...
> >
> > Hi people! First of all, sorry for my bad english...
> >
> > I'm new on nagios3. I follow the instruccions about instalation and
> > configuring, and I had no problems.
> >
> > Now, I monitor a Linux machine and a Windows XP with NSClient++.
> > But I have a little limitations with the NSClient++:
> > I would like to monitor the CPU temperature, the fan velocity, S.M.A.R.T.
> > messages of the HD, and other "hardware" variables.
> > Is it possible to do this with NSClient++? I have found no documentation
> > about this options on NSClient++'s wiki.
> >
> > Are there another software for monitoring this variables?
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> >
>
> For a different method altogether, you could install the snmpd service on
> either windows or *nix, and use the check_snmp plugin, and/or these for
> windows stuff:
>
> http://henning.schmiedehausen.org/eyewiki/Wiki.jsp?page=NagiosSnmpPlugins
>
> (for other snmp plugins, i'm sure there are many more
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org)
>
> Regards,
> jamie
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