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How can disk I/O and Network I/O be monitored
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2014 3:04 pm
by islesfan1
How can I monitor the following on windows, LINUX and AIX?
• Disk I/O
• Network I/O
1.What version of Nagios XI are you using? Nagios XI 2012R2.9 Copyright © 2008-2014 Nagios Enterprises, LLC.
2.Linux Distribution and version? RHEL
3.32 or 64bit? 64 BIT
4.VMware Image or Manual Install of XI? VMware Image
5.Are there special configurations on your system, ie; is Gnome installed? Are you using a proxy? Are you using SSL? no to all
Re: How can disk I/O and Network I/O be monitored
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 11:24 am
by slansing
Network: I would recommend trying out the Network Switch and Router wizard first, found in Configure > Monitoring Wizards. You can also run this against SNMP enabled windows/*nix systems to get their interface information.
Disk I/O: What granularity and specific metrics are you looking to get? Are you interested in current disk usage, or actual I/O between your disks/partitions.
Re: How can disk I/O and Network I/O be monitored
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 11:39 am
by islesfan1
I am interested in actual I/O for disk on LINUX and Windows.
Re: How can disk I/O and Network I/O be monitored
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 12:51 pm
by slansing
I/O for windows can be monitoring through performance counters:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... 85%29.aspx
And by running the Windows Server wizard, at the bottom you can add in the counters you wish to monitor.
As far as Linux goes, you would want to install the NRPE linux agent and install this plugin on the linux server along side it:
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... io/details
I would however, recommend looking at that exchange site and seeing if there is another plugin you would prefer, that is simply the first one I found that matched. Once you have the agent installed, and the plugin in the system's nagios plugins directory let us know and we will help you configure a check.