NSClient++ Counters

[Steve Shipway]

Brian Huffman:
> I'm trying to setup counters with NSClient++ and I am having 
> trouble with counters that have an instance.  For example, 
> Processor->%Processor Usage has either an instance of 
> "_Total" or "0" for the machine that I'm using, but I can't 
> get either of these to work.  No matter what I use, this is 
> the response that I get back:
> 
> [root at xyz libexec]# ./check_nrpe -H a.b.c.d -p 5666 -c 
> checkCounter -a "Counter:processor=\\Processor\\% Processor 
> Time" ShowAll MaxWarn=80 MaxCrit=90 The specified instance of 
> the performance object was not found.

You need to specify the instance:

"\\Processor\\% Processor Time(_Total)" 

This works with pNSclient, which I believe uses the same syntax as
NSClient++.  However, check the NSClient++ docs...

Steve




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