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

[Robert Smith]

Does anyone have the source code for checkcounter.exe or know where it
came from?

-Robert

Carsten Koop wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> If you're using NSClient++, you can check all the WMI-Counters with
> the following command:
> /./check_nt -H 127.0.0.1 -p 1234  -v COUNTER -l
> '\\Terminaldienste\\Sitzungen Insgesamt'/
>
> /(You have to search the correct Counter with the Windows Performance
> Monitor)/
>
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
>
>      Carsten Koop
>
>
>
> *"James Whittington" <James.Whittington at vc3.com>*
> Gesendet von: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
>
> 14.02.2007 17:00
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> An
> 	"Robert Wolfe" <rwolfe at shatterit.com>,
> <Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Kopie
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> 	Re: [Nagios-users] Checking Windows counter via nagios, nsclient++,  
>      and nrpe
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>
> 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.
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> *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?
>  
>
>
> *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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