Best plugins for graphing data from windows servers

[szkoda]

Hi All,

Anyone know the best plugins to monitor windows servers so that they graph correctly for stuff like memory, cpu and disk space? I'm using the latest version of Nagios (4.x) with the latest version of pnp4nagios but the data doesn't graph that well. The only thing that does graph properly is the ping statistics for each server.

I'm using NSclient with check_nt at the moment but will move to check_nrpe or SNMP if it means it will graph properly. I've had a look at editing the pnp4nagios graph templates but it doesn't look easy.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

[abrist]

What type of issues are you having with the graphing of the other checks? If they are returning proper performance data, they should graph (especially if you already have graphing working for other checks like ping).

[szkoda]

I've attached a screenshot of the memory graph for example. It seems to get confused with MB and KB and ideally I'd like to round the numbers as well if you know what I mean (e.g. 17.2 GB as opposed to 17.235643 GB)

Also I'm not sure if the "Max" number is the maximum figure the memory has reached or whether its supposed to be the total of the RAM altogether?

[szkoda]

Think I might have cracked it!

As you can see from the screenshot the graph is using the default pnp4nagios graph template. What I didn't realise is that the command check I use needs to be EXACTLY the same as the template name otherwise it will use the default template to try to graph the data.

For check_nt the template names are as follows:

check_nt_cpu
check_nt_mem
check_nt_disk

I've now changed my commands to match the above and have deleted the old RRD files. I will wait for some data to appear to see if this sorts it.

Hopefully this helps someone else out there!

[jolson]

Thanks for reporting back with your fix - we appreciate it. Let us know if you run in to any further difficulty. Thanks!

[Box293]

Check out the talk I did at the Nagios World Conference, it covers some of the things you just learnt and you might find out some other things you did not know

You can watch it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqA2KcpUFg4
http://www.slideshare.net/nagiosinc/tro ... and-graphs