Windows server mount point space monitoring

[tonkaUser]

Hi,

How can I monitor space on mount points ? We are using Windows server 2008R2/2012.

Thanks

[bolson]

Use the CheckDriveSize plugin with NRPE like this:

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./check_nrpe -H <hostname or ip_address> -c CheckDriveSize -a <mount_ponit eg: c:\mount> MaxWarn=85% MaxCrit=90%

Let us know if this works for you.

[npolovenko]

@tonkaUser, You could use the latest version of NSClient with the CheckDisk command. It supports monitoring of mounted points. https://docs.nsclient.org/reference/windows/CheckDisk/
Or you could use a similar CheckDisk with NCPA https://www.nagios.org/ncpa/help.php
Do you already have any agents installed on the server?

[tonkaUser]

We are using NCPA agent. How do I add mount space monitor? I don't see anything in the wizard to specify the disk location.

I cloned an existing C drive monitor and changed to use used disk/mount with the folder that it was mounted to, but got an error.
Example:
/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ncpa.py ... -M 'disk/mount/C:|MountRoot|SQLData|Tempdb/used_percent' ...

Error:
The node (C:|MountRoot|SQLData|Tempdb) requested does not exist.

Thanks

[tonkaUser]

Can somebody please provide pointers on how to setup it up with NCPA?
I tried to list mounts and don't see any mounts at all (except for cd-rom).

https://server:5693/api/disk/mount?token=mytoken

Thanks

[dwhitfield]

What versions of check_ncpa.py and ncpa are you using? The way you write checks has changed in recent versions.

[tonkaUser]

We use NCPA Agent 2.0.6 on Windows server 2008 R2. Nagios is 5.4.12.

How do I check the version of check_ncpa.py?

Thanks!

[tgriep]

The NCPA agent for now, can only check the size of drives and not folders. You would have to add a plugin configuration to the agent to check the sub-folder.
Add this example to the ncpa.cfg file

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%HOSTNAME%|Winfile =  plugins/check_winfile.exe --target c:\\temp  --warn 100 --critical 250

It counts all files in the directory c:\temp. Returns WARNING for more than 100 files or CRITICAL for more than 250 files.
This is just an example of a command so you would have to adjust it to your needs.

The executable and more examples can be found here.
https://itefix.net/check_winfile

[tonkaUser]

Are you saying that NCPA agent cannot check the size of a mount point on Windows server?
I don't see that check_winfile can check mount point size. Is it not supported by NCPA? Do I need to use NRPE agent?


Thanks

[dwhitfield]

The NCPA agent for now, can only check the size of drives

If that mount point is a drive, then it will be able to do it.