How to get Nagios to monitor Windows NIC Stats

[Steve Shipway]

You can do this with nsclient, but remember that a network interface
statistic has multiple instances.  Therefore, you need to specify the
instance... this can produce horribly complex command lines.

./check_nt -H 192.168.9.254 -v COUNTER -l '\Network Interface(My network
card instance name)\Bytes Total/sec"

You use a similar method for everything else that uses instances (eg Disk).
We are using nsclient here for monitoring network interfaces, disk, and
countless other things with no problems.

Steve

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
>[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of 
>George P Boutwell
>Sent: Thursday, 14 October 2004 9:36 a.m.
>To: nagios-users at lists.sf.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] How to get Nagios to monitor Windows NIC Stats
>
>
>Hey,
>
>  I'm trying to get Nagios (on Linux) to Monitor Windows NT 4 
>(a couple) and Windows 2000 Server (a dozen or so) server's NIC stats.
>
>  I tried with NSClient which is already doing a bang-up job 
>monitoring several other Performance Counters for us, but the 
>following (for example) doesn't work:
>
>./check_nt -H 192.168.9.254 -v COUNTER -l "\\Network 
>Interface\\Bytes Total/sec\\"
>
>  It returns 0, and puts an ITEM_NOT_VALID error in the Event Log.
>
>  Anyone else using Nagios to monitor Windows Bandwidth/NIC stats?
>
>Specifically we'd like to monitor:
>
> Current Bandwidth
> Total Bytes/sec
> Total Bytes Sent/sec
> Total Bytes Received/sec
>
>Which are all available in the WMI/Performance counters.
>
>Thanks,
>
>George
>
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