Page 1 of 1
Disk Idle Time
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 3:14 pm
by JohnFLi
After many times of banging my head into the table, I finally figured out how to get check_nt to get perfmon data from Windows.
Code: Select all
./check_nt -H 10.100.5.38 -p 12489 -v COUNTER -l "\\LogicalDisk(C:)\\% Idle Time","%.2f"
and if the server isn't really doing much, the disk will be idle 90+ % of the time. As a result, setting a warning to 80% and criticle to 90% really isn't going to work.
basicly, I need to know when idle time gets below 20%
any ideas?
Re: Disk Idle Time
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:00 pm
by JohnFLi
hmmm, I may have figured it out. Tell me if this looks valid
Code: Select all
check_command web_disk_idle!COUNTER!-l "\\LogicalDisk(C:)\\% Idle Time","%.2f"!-w >20!-c >10
what I think I told it to do was WARN me if idle time gets below 20% and criticle at less than 10%
Re: Disk Idle Time
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 6:58 pm
by Box293
Re: Disk Idle Time
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:07 am
by JohnFLi
The problem with that, is that if the drive isn't doing much, it's idle time will be close to 100%
What I need to know is when Disk idle time is below 20%.
Re: Disk Idle Time
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:04 pm
by sreinhardt
I have not seen or used < or > with warning and threshold limits, normally it is done with : and ~, such as
https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelin ... HOLDFORMAT I'd suggest changing the < to : and trying it out. That should give you a less than 20% usage sends an critical notification, type of scenario.
Re: Disk Idle Time
Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 1:24 pm
by JohnFLi
Box293,
After going over with what you said....
I noticed you had the crit level below the warning.
I did a test with the settings at -w 99!-c 90
I got warnings at 92.21, 97.46 and 92.12
I got a critical at 88.26 and 77.08
and an OK at 99.77
I guess this thread can be closed.