Windows plugin to check process page faults?

[Frost, Mark {PBG}]

Thanks very much, Phil!

I'm having a little difficulty finding any documentation that tells
enumerates the
PDH counters.  The Microsoft documentation I can find seems to talk more
about the
API for using PDH rather than enumerating the possible keys you can
search on.  I
See there's a PDHbrowser function in the API which looks like it would
be really nice,
But I'd have to actually do some Windows programming to get that far....

Thanks

Mark

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[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Phil
Costelloe
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 11:20 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Windows plugin to check process page faults?

Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote:
> We have a need on a Windows 2003 box to check the number of page
> faults a particular process has incurred.  I'm not really aware of
> how I could do this.  
> 
> We are running Nagios 2.4 and use the standard plugins with check_nrpe
> 0.8 to monitor CPU, memory and disk space.
> 
> Does anyone know if there's some way to get a plugin to report a
> process' page faults? 

You can access any of the Windows performance counters using nsclient
(and presumably nsclient++).

The particular counter in this case, given a process called foobar,
would be \\Process(foobar)\\Page Faults/Sec and the check command and
service entries would be something like:

define command {
    command_name    check_nt_pagefaults
    command_line    $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$ -v
COUNTER -l "\\Process($ARG5$)\\Page Faults/Sec","Page faults per second
are %.2f %%" -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ -s $ARG4$
}

define service {
    use    generic-service
    host_name    windows_host
    service_description    Page Faults
    contact_groups    amber-admins
    check_command    check_nt_pagefaults!1248!3!5!password!foobar
etc etc
}

Untested but should just about work.

Phil
 
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