Windows Service detail continued

[Izz Abdullah]

I guess I should have put in the command again as a refresher:
check_nt -H 192.168.1.1 -p 12489 -v COUNTER -l "Process\(Outlook)\Working Set"
this works from the terminal of the Nagios server.

Thanks again,
Izz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: izz_abdullah at inbox.com
> Sent: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:01:07 -0800
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Windows Service detail continued
> 
> Can I just write a shell script to do this for me?  check_nt works just
> fine with returning the value from the server's terminal console, but as
> stated before, this doesn't work if I put into the service definitions.
> I'm using NSClient++.
> 
> Also, I am very familiar with WMI scripting, but how to get this
> information back to the Nagios GUI?  That's my problem at hand.  I can do
> it from the console, but want everything in the GUI as power users will
> be monitoring this.  It needs to be a monitor, not an "ok, now let's
> check". :-)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Izz
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Anthony
> Montibello
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:19 AM
> To: Izz Abdullah
> Cc: nagios
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance data for service
> 
> You could try testing with NC_NEt(http://sourceforge.net/projects/nc-net)
> or NSCLinet (http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/)
> 
> They are both copatible with Check_nt so there will be minimal to no
> reconfiguration needed on Nagios side,  However the default listen port
> is 1248 so you would need to at least configure that on the client side.
> 
> check_nt does not have a showall for COunters , so that should not havee
> helped anything.  Run the command help and check the documentation for
> your windows plugin.  Also check the service description
> 
> I prefer to use the following definition:
> define command{
> 	command_name	check_nt_with_L
> 	command_line	$USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 12489 -s PASSWORD -v
> $ARG1$ -l "$ARG2$" $ARG3$
> 	}
> then the check command:
> check_nt!COUNTER!Process\(Outlook)\Working Set
> since the passing to the Command definision may be losing your ""
> NC_Net would return a -1 when your Counter fails to actually connect but
> I do not know what nsclient++ returns on a bad counter.
> You may need to test from the command line what nsclient++ returns when
> the COunter is incorrect syntex.
> Tony (Author of NC_NEt)
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Izz Abdullah <izz_abdullah at inbox.com>
> wrote:
>  Ok, so I found an example using the COUNTER object.  From the Nagios
> server I can run the following and get correct data back:
> 
> check_nt -H 192.168.1.1 -p 12489 -v COUNTER -l "Process\(Outlook)\Working
> Set"
> this returns memory for me...
> 
> but when i put this into the windows.cfg file as:
> check_nt!COUNTER!-l "Process\(Outlook)\Working Set"
> 
> it verifies as no errors, but the GUI is showing 0, which is not the same
> as from the command-line.  I also tried the -d SHOWALL option and that
> didn't work.   Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Izz
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amontibello at gmail.com
> Sent: Tue, 20 May 2008 22:00:12 -0400
> To: izz_abdullah at inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance data for service
> You should be able to get this data through the Process performance
> counter object with the instance set to the process name (as long as you
> can map the process name to an actual counter instance)
> 
> or you should be able to get this data through a WMI querry
> 
> Or you can write a script or program and get the data through NC_NEt or a
> NRPE plugin
> 
> TOny (author of NC_Net)
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Izz Abdullah <izz_abdullah at inbox.com>
> wrote:
> Not necessarily explorer.exe.
> 
> I am looking more at some java instances, (java.exe, etc.).  I want to
> know CPU load as well as Memory usage of a process.
> 
> Thanks,
> Izz
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: adesperateuser at googlemail.com
>> Sent: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:49:48 +0200
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance data for service
>> 
>> Hi Izz,
>> 
>> Izz Abdullah schrieb:
>>> I have enabled performance data for my monitored Windows 2k3 server.  I
>>> am receiving performance data, not extremely clear, but receiving, for
>>> the defaulted services.  What I want is to see performance data on
>>> running processes as well (e.g. the Explorer.exe process has nothing in
>>> the performance data field).  Can someone please assist?
>> 
>> What kind of performance data would you expect from explorer.exe? With
>> some services, it just doesn't make much sense to have performance
>> analyzed, in my opinion.
>> 
>> Greetz, Marcus
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