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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hello List,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’ve been experimenting with check_nt and check_nc_net
(I have Nc_Net installed on a test server and have had this same problem with
both UNIX plugins).</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The server is 2003, English version</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The commands which demonstrate working and not working
examples are:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Not working:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold'># ./check_nc_net -H windowssys
-v COUNTER -l "\\MSExchangeMTA\\Disk File Deletes/sec"</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold'>\MSExchangeMTA\Disk File
Deletes/sec = 0.00</span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Working:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold'># ./check_nc_net -H windowssys
-v COUNTER -l "\\MSExchangeMTA\\Free Elements"</span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=1 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";font-weight:bold'>\MSExchangeMTA\Free Elements
= 7.00</span></font></b></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>It seems to me that any COUNTER that has a forwardslash in
its name returns zero.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I checked actual values on the server using the local
performance counter viewer provided with nc_net and the values are not zero.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>These are just examples, but I get the same results for \memory\pages/sec
and others, it doesn’t matter whether I use the ^ notation either.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I tried googling, but didn’t get anything relevant, this
is NC_Net_V4.1a installed via the MSI package.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Otherwise, everything seems to be working OK.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hope someone has either come across this problem or has some
ideas, I don’t should I should need to escape a “/” should I?</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><br>
Giles</span></font></p>
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