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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>checkCounter can check any
performance counter object in windows as far as I know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I found out if you are using
nsclient++ the command “nsclient++ CheckSystem listpdh” would dump
all the counters it found.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I looked for the process I was
wanting to watch to find the right syntax for the process and instance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>James Whittington<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Systems Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>VC3, Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>803-978-2723 direct<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>800-787-1160 main<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Robert Wolfe
[mailto:rwolfe@shatterit.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> James Whittington; Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Nagios-users] Checking Windows counter via nagios,
nsclient++,and nrpe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:navy'>Can this also be used to monitor memory use by a process/program as
well?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>James
Whittington<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:30 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] Checking Windows counter via nagios,
nsclient++,and nrpe</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I already have nsclient++ in place, and I’m using the
checkCounter command in nrpe.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Here’s the command and response:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>./check_nrpe -H 192.168.197.183 -p 5666 -c checkCounter -a
"Counter:PrivBytes=\\Process(ProductATasksService)\\Private
Bytes" ShowAll<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>OK: PrivBytes: 2.38641e+08<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Is there an option to convert the format to human readable?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I figured I would toss the question out to the list to see
if others had run into this before.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>James Whittington<o:p></o:p></p>
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