WMI Wizard Checks

[mguthrie]

We're putting together a dev release of the wizard with the updated plugin. Would you be open to helping us test it in your environment? We recommend testing on a test environment, not a production server.

[nscott]

rsweiwert,

Hey, I just got done hashing the new 1.46 WMI plugin into a wizard. If you wouldn't mind, would you beta test this plugin. I want to stress that this Wizard has not been used in a production environment but is working in a test environment. It simply replaces the 1.42 version that is currently in use, and if it doesn't work all you will have to do is reinstall the old Wizard.

Please give this a try and let me know.

[hhlodge]

I will test this over the next week. FWIW, I've been using version 1.44 for weeks in a production environment without issue and it had many of the major changes from the previous wizard's version.

[nscott]

Let us know Kyle and thanks for the input. This is version 1.46, it didn't see anything major change in these releases, hopefully nothing will break between the releases.

[rseiwert]

I will load this now and check it out. Kind of went ahead and built my own using 1.46. I would like to see the wizard work.

[rseiwert]

ya for discovering the second page of posts... I loaded the wizard and immediately got

This plugin requires an INI file. Configure its location by setting the $wmi_ini_file variable in this plugin or by using the --inifile parameter to override the default setting. Ini File currently set to '/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_wmi_plus146.ini'

It also broke the 1.46 I had installed. I would recommend differentiating the wizard from the authors orginal by checking the filename. something like check_wmi_xi_146.pl

Currently at 166 unknown checks and my phone will not stop buzzing and reverting to the author's latest...

[rseiwert]

So back to nominal but my poor phone will probably be receiving sms alerts for the rest of the night.......

Any suggestions on quieting alerts during massive failures besides the mass acknowledgement?

[rseiwert]

In your wizard I noticed a lack of the '.' drive which tells the check_wmi_plus checkdiskspace to check all local drives. Supposed blank also does this but several machines complain they cannot find drive ' ' when blank.

[nscott]

rseiwert, thanks for pointing out the wizards and apologies for the pains associated with it. Generally what I would do in that situation is if the hosts are not already in a hostgroup together, make a hostgroup with them in it, and the just schedule downtime for the entire hostgroup.

[scottwilkerson]

See http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtop ... 613#p20613 for resolution to the negative results


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