Windows Service detail continued

[Izz Abdullah]

Can I just write a shell script to do this for me?  check_nt works just fine with returning the value from the server's terminal console, but as stated before, this doesn't work if I put into the service definitions.  I'm using NSClient++.

Also, I am very familiar with WMI scripting, but how to get this information back to the Nagios GUI?  That's my problem at hand.  I can do it from the console, but want everything in the GUI as power users will be monitoring this.  It needs to be a monitor, not an "ok, now let's check". :-)

Thanks in advance,
Izz


-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Anthony Montibello
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:19 AM
To: Izz Abdullah
Cc: nagios
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance data for service

You could try testing with NC_NEt(http://sourceforge.net/projects/nc-net) or NSCLinet (http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/)
 
They are both copatible with Check_nt so there will be minimal to no reconfiguration needed on Nagios side,  However the default listen port is 1248 so you would need to at least configure that on the client side.
 
check_nt does not have a showall for COunters , so that should not havee helped anything.  Run the command help and check the documentation for your windows plugin.  Also check the service description 
 
I prefer to use the following definition:
define command{
	command_name	check_nt_with_L
	command_line	$USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 12489 -s PASSWORD -v $ARG1$ -l "$ARG2$" $ARG3$
	}
then the check command:
check_nt!COUNTER!Process\(Outlook)\Working Set
since the passing to the Command definision may be losing your "" 
NC_Net would return a -1 when your Counter fails to actually connect but I do not know what nsclient++ returns on a bad counter.
You may need to test from the command line what nsclient++ returns when the COunter is incorrect syntex.
Tony (Author of NC_NEt)
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Izz Abdullah <izz_abdullah at inbox.com> wrote:
 Ok, so I found an example using the COUNTER object.  From the Nagios server I can run the following and get correct data back:

check_nt -H 192.168.1.1 -p 12489 -v COUNTER -l "Process\(Outlook)\Working Set"
this returns memory for me...

but when i put this into the windows.cfg file as:
check_nt!COUNTER!-l "Process\(Outlook)\Working Set"

it verifies as no errors, but the GUI is showing 0, which is not the same as from the command-line.  I also tried the -d SHOWALL option and that didn't work.   Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Izz

-----Original Message-----
From: amontibello at gmail.com
Sent: Tue, 20 May 2008 22:00:12 -0400
To: izz_abdullah at inbox.com
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance data for service
You should be able to get this data through the Process performance counter object with the instance set to the process name (as long as you can map the process name to an actual counter instance) 
 
or you should be able to get this data through a WMI querry
 
Or you can write a script or program and get the data through NC_NEt or a NRPE plugin
 
TOny (author of NC_Net)
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Izz Abdullah <izz_abdullah at inbox.com> wrote:
Not necessarily explorer.exe.

I am looking more at some java instances, (java.exe, etc.).  I want to know CPU load as well as Memory usage of a process.

Thanks,
Izz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: adesperateuser at googlemail.com
> Sent: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:49:48 +0200
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance data for service
>
> Hi Izz,
>
> Izz Abdullah schrieb:
>> I have enabled performance data for my monitored Windows 2k3 server.  I
>> am receiving performance data, not extremely clear, but receiving, for
>> the defaulted services.  What I want is to see performance data on
>> running processes as well (e.g. the Explorer.exe process has nothing in
>> the performance data field).  Can someone please assist?
>
> What kind of performance data would you expect from explorer.exe? With
> some services, it just doesn't make much sense to have performance
> analyzed, in my opinion.
>
> Greetz, Marcus
>
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