Windows Active Sessions

[Claudio Kuenzler]

There's also an existing plugin for this: check_user_count.bat
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Remote-Access/Count-number-of-terminal-server-sessions/details

However I suggest to use checkCounter, as Jim Avery mentioned it. That way
you keep independent of additional files.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Robert Jackson <rab at walkermartyn.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> Many thanks for the excellent reply. I'll give it a bash and see if I
> can get it going.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Avery [mailto:jim at jimavery.me.uk]
> Sent: Monday 23 January 2012 13:43
> To: Nagios Users List
> Subject: rab at walkermartyn.co.uk - Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Active
> Sessions - Bayesian Filter detected spam
>
> On 23 January 2012 13:09, Robert Jackson <rab at walkermartyn.co.uk> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to return the number of active sessions from a
> Windows
> > Terminal server? I have installed the NSClient++ service on the
> Windows
> > server and obviously have the NRPE plugin installed on my Nagios host.
>
>
> Rab,
>
> if I've understood correctly then you can query a Windows performance
> counter.
>
> I use an entry in the NSClient++ config file in the [External Alias]
> section that looks like this:-
>
>  alias_CheckCounter-ts_act_sess=CheckCounter
> "Counter:sessions=\Terminal Services\Active Sessions" ShowAll
> MaxWarn=40 MaxCrit=50
>
>
> Then on the Nagios side, the command is simply check_nrpe -H
> thehostname -c alias_CheckCounter-ts_act_sess
>
> So the command definition in Nagios is:-
>
>
> define command{
>  command_name    check_nrpe
>  command_line    $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u $ARG1$
>  }
>
>
> And the service definition looks something like this:-
>
> define service{
>  use                   srv-pnp,generic-service
>  host_name             myhost
>  service_description   TS_Active_Sessions
>  check_command         check_nrpe!-c ts_act_sess
>  notes                 Number of Terminal Services Active Sessions
>  contact_groups        notify-engineers
> }
>
>
> There are lots of similar ways to do this sort of think using
> NSClient++.  Precisely how you set it up depends a bit on how
> obsessive you are about security and your particular preference.
>
> The method shown above means you can have allow_arguments=0 and
> allow_nasty_meta_chars=0 in the [nrpe] section which is good for
> security.  The downside is that if you need to change the warning
> theshold, you have to edit the nsc.ini file on the target system.
>
> hth,
>
> Jim
>
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