Windows Service detail continued

[Izz Abdullah]

I got it working from the check command and it returns to the GUI now...I made a typo :(

Correct check_command:
check_nt!COUNTER!-l "\\Process(OUTLOOK)\\Working Set"

With more assistance from meulie.net forum, (http://www.meulie.net/portal_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?11229)
I got the data I needed.

Now I have another question, and maybe it has been answered before, but looking at the GUI currently, for this process it shows:
	
Outlook Memory Usage in Bytes	OK 	11-06-2008 07:29:18 	0d 22h 15m 8s 	1/3 	74694700

Which is correct when compared to Task Manager.  What I want to know is, can I divide this by 1024 to get into kb AND format it with a comma? :)

I know that is a lot to ask...but would be nice.  There is an optional <description> output for the COUNTER variable, but am unsure of exactly how it works, and if this is even the route I should take.

Greatly appreciate any help in advance.

Best Regards,
Izz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: izz_abdullah at inbox.com
> Sent: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:02:29 -0800
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Service detail continued
> 
> 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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