Bandwidth monitoring

[nottheadmin]

Hi, I need to set up some form of bandwidth monitoring on some windows machines and a few freebsd boxes.

I am not able to monitor the switch ports via snmp on account of internal politics.

I should be able to get bandwidth info back from wmi though i think?

Not sure about the freebsd boxes yet

Could somebody please point me towards some documentation or other help to get bandwidth monitoring set up?

Thanks
M

[slansing]

Possibly, on the Windows side, can you access the performance counters? If you take a look at your NICs there, and they provide the necessary data we can help you to monitor them.

[nottheadmin]

working on that, another issue has come up though, posting a new thread....

[abrist]

We will leave this thread open until you have time . . .

[nottheadmin]

Well, I can access anything that WMI provides but through wmic, i can see nothing relating to the perf counters.

What were you thinking?

[sreinhardt]

WMI does provide performance counters via wmi. I will have to lookup exactly how you will want to do it, but it is absolutely possible!

[nottheadmin]

Yes it should, I cant tell what the WMIC switchis though, There are some VB scripts knocking about the internet but I'm not sure how to integrate this neatly into a check?

[sreinhardt]

I don't think this one is built in, we will have to craft a specific root class and object request within it, which is basically all that I need to lookup.

[nottheadmin]

That would be awesome, I'm in the process of purchasing he unlimited enterprise license right now, Waiting on your sales guys to return the supplier info to us.

Is this something that you would be able to do as part of the normal license fee?

Thanks!

[tmcdonald]

sreinhardt is looking into this and we think this is something we can help you out with.