disk IO for windows?

[Curtis LaMasters]

I use Disk Idle time as an indicator.  Not an original idea :(  I was
told to mimic the monitoring built into Windows SBS.

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Anthony Montibello<amontibello at gmail.com> wrote:
> That is partialy right,
>
> The Alt delete thing is To get to TaskManager but only on New versions of
> windows does it give access to some counter names,
>
> The best place to go is Performance Monitor Since thats on all version of
> windows since 2000
> Control Panel--> Administrative Tools--> Computer Managment--> then
> Performance Counter
> on newer systems from Computer Management --> Reliability and performance
> --> Monitoring Tools --> Performance Monitor
> Once you FIND performance Monitor then click the Green + to get into the
> "add counters"
> Click the Checkbox to Show the Counter description then click arround till
> you find what you need
> Look for Disks for Drive stuff,
>
> Tony (Author of NC_NEt)
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
>>
>> dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum wrote:
>> > Anyone know of a plug-in or mechanism to log local disk I/O on windows?
>> >
>> > My nagios server is currently using check_nt to connect to windows hosts
>> > via nsclient++. I was hoping perhaps COUNTER has something buried
>> > within it to pull down this info.
>> >
>>
>> There are indeed counters for that, but due to Microsoft's stupidity the
>> counter-names are different depending on which base-language you've
>> used for your windows servers.
>>
>> I don't know what they're named for english platforms (or any other
>> for that matter), but you should be able to view them with that thing
>> you can pop up when pressing ctrl-alt-del (task manager or whatever it's
>> called).
>>
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