<div><font size="2">You must be using NC_Net as your windows plugin, </font></div><span class="q"> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">-l "^SMTP Server^_Total^Remote Queue Length","Remote Queue Length %.2f"</font></div></span> <div><font size="2">Is acceptable syntex for using NC_NEt, but no other windows plugin supports this syntex. NC_NEt also supoports the original check_nt syntex as was pointed out earlier</font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">the -1 responce indicated that NC_NEt was unable to find the counter.</font></div> <div><font size="2"><font size="2">Things to check:</font></font></div> <div><font size="2">Does the counter exist on that host.</font></div> <div><font size="2">Are you using the latest version of NC_NEt? v4</font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">Sometimes on a Windows Host some/many performance counters become corupted, to validate if this is the case open the windows performance monitor from administrative tools, and see if the counters are in there. </font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">another approch to diagnosing using nc_net and check_nc_net is to use the INSTANCES and ENUMCOUNTERS this would validate that NC_NET can see the counter and it would validate the spelling. </font></div> <div><font size="2">Naturally I am assuming those are ok, but it would show if NC_NET can see the counter.</font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">If this issue persists feel free to use the forum at <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/nc-net" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/nc-net </a></font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">good luck</font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div> <div><font size="2">Tony (Author of NC_Net)</font></div> <div><font size="2"></font> </div><br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ilya Aronov</b> <<a href="mailto:iaronov@aplia.com">iaronov@aplia.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"> <div> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am trying to retrieve SMTP counters from Windows 2003 server</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Command bellow returning -1, application log in Windows 2003 has error message "Category does not exist". In Perfmon I am able to see this counter though. </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I am able to get other counters from the same server in Nagios.</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What am I missing?</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">define command{</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> command_name check_nt_counter_queuelength</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v COUNTER -l "^SMTP Server^_Total^Remote Queue Length","Remote Queue Length %.2f" -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> }</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thanks</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Ilya</span></font></p> <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> </span></font></p></div></div><br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. <br>Still grepping through log files to find problems? 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