Network Interface Card (NIC) Team Monitoring

[svongor]

Hello,

I created a NIC team on my Windows 2019 Server but Nagios xi only sees the teamed group when I set up my host in the Windows Server Config Wizard under Network Interface Metrics. This means if one of my teamed cards goes down I can't monitor it because the connection will still be up!

I am new to this and I just began learning Nagios xi, so I'm sure I'm missing something.
Is there any way I can monitor both of my NIC teamed card in Nagios xi?

Any help would be much appreciated!

[vtrac]

Hi,
NIC teaming is a feature of Windows Server that allows the grouping of NICs into teams.
Hence, NIC teaming maintains a connection to multiple physical switches but uses a single IP address.

On your Nagios XI command prompt, please run the below command:
NOTE: "x.x.x.x" is the remote windows server's IP address and "yourToken" is defined in your "ncpa.cfg" file.

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curl -k "https://x.x.x.x:5693/api/interface?token=yourToken"

The outputs of the above command will list all the interfaces that you can monitor.

I believe when running the "Windows Server Configuration Wizard", all of those interfaces should already be listed as well. You might have to click the "Show all interfaces" link.

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You can try re-ran the wizard again and see if those interfaces are listed.


Best Regards,
Vinh

[svongor]

Thank you vtrac.
I this we are heading in the right direction.

[root@localhost cfgprep]# curl -k "https://172.16.2.25:5693/api/interface? ... cijN4XpcS4"
{
"interface": {
"Server Network": {
"packets_sent": [
156263232,
"packets"
],
"dropin": [
0,
"packets"
],
"bytes_recv": [
182.85,
"GiB"
],
"packets_recv": [
273746508,
"packets"
],
"errin": [
0,
"errors"
],
"dropout": [
0,
"packets"
],
"bytes_sent": [
561.14,
"GiB"
],
"errout": [
0,
"errors"

When I use that command, I can see the interfaces; however, I get an error when I attempt to monitor it in the web interface.
I used -t 'myToken' -P 5693 -M 'interface/ServerNetwork/bytes_recv' -d -u M -w '10' -c '100'
I got:
UNKNOWN: The node (ServerNetwork) requested does not exist.

Please advise, thank you.

[vtrac]

Hi,
Hope you are having a good day.

Looks like you were missing a "space" between "Server Network", please try this:

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cd /usr/local/nagios/libexec

./check_ncpa.py -H x.x.x.x -t "myToken" -P 5693 -M  "interface/Server Network/bytes_recv" d -u M -w '10' -c '100'

You can test that with curl, replace "%20" for each "space":

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curl -k "https://x.x.x.x:5693/api/interface/Server%20Network/bytes_recv?token=myToken"

Best Regards,
Vinh

[svongor]

Thank you vtrac.

That was the solution to my problem.

[vtrac]

Great!! .... may I lock / close this thread?

Best Regards,
Vinh

[svongor]

Yes.

Thank you.

[vtrac]

Great!! .... locking thread ...