Checking Windows counter via nagios, nsclient++, and nrpe

[James Whittington]

checkCounter can check any performance counter object in windows as far
as I know.

 

I found out if you are using nsclient++ the command "nsclient++
CheckSystem listpdh" would dump all the counters it found.

I looked for the process I was wanting to watch to find the right syntax
for the process and instance.

 

James Whittington

Systems Engineer

VC3, Inc.

 

803-978-2723 direct

800-787-1160 main

 

From: Robert Wolfe [mailto:rwolfe at shatterit.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:34 AM
To: James Whittington; Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Checking Windows counter via nagios,
nsclient++,and nrpe

 

Can this also be used to monitor memory use by a process/program as
well?

 

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From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of James
Whittington
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:30 AM
To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Checking Windows counter via nagios,
nsclient++,and nrpe

 

Hello all,

 

I have a Nagios 2 system used in monitoring several application
environments and I'm looking for the best way to monitor a Windows 2003
process.

I already have nsclient++ in place, and I'm using the  checkCounter
command in nrpe.

The main issue at this point is the counter in question returns a value
in scientific notation, which isn't very readable for non-scientists.

 

Here's the command and response:

./check_nrpe -H 192.168.197.183 -p 5666 -c checkCounter -a
"Counter:PrivBytes=\\Process(ProductATasksService)\\Private Bytes"
ShowAll

OK: PrivBytes: 2.38641e+08

 

Is there an option to convert the format to human readable?

If not I might have to write something to convert it which might be a
bad idea anyway, since I don't see performance data coming from the
plugin either and I write the performance data to a sql backend.

 

I figured I would toss the question out to the list to see if others had
run into this before.

Thanks,

 

James Whittington

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