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Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 11:05 am
by 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

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 1:50 pm
by 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.

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 10:33 am
by nottheadmin
working on that, another issue has come up though, posting a new thread....

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 11:56 am
by abrist
We will leave this thread open until you have time . . .

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 8:26 am
by 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?

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 4:01 pm
by 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!

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 8:00 am
by 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?

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2014 1:04 pm
by 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. :D

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 5:16 am
by 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!

Re: Bandwidth monitoring

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 10:48 am
by tmcdonald
sreinhardt is looking into this and we think this is something we can help you out with.