I use Disk Idle time as an indicator. Not an original idea :( I was told to mimic the monitoring built into Windows SBS.
Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Anthony Montibello<amontibe...@gmail.com> wrote: > That is partialy right, > > The Alt delete thing is To get to TaskManager but only on New versions of > windows does it give access to some counter names, > > The best place to go is Performance Monitor Since thats on all version of > windows since 2000 > Control Panel--> Administrative Tools--> Computer Managment--> then > Performance Counter > on newer systems from Computer Management --> Reliability and performance > --> Monitoring Tools --> Performance Monitor > Once you FIND performance Monitor then click the Green + to get into the > "add counters" > Click the Checkbox to Show the Counter description then click arround till > you find what you need > Look for Disks for Drive stuff, > > Tony (Author of NC_NEt) > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Andreas Ericsson <a...@op5.se> wrote: >> >> dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum wrote: >> > Anyone know of a plug-in or mechanism to log local disk I/O on windows? >> > >> > My nagios server is currently using check_nt to connect to windows hosts >> > via nsclient++. I was hoping perhaps COUNTER has something buried >> > within it to pull down this info. >> > >> >> There are indeed counters for that, but due to Microsoft's stupidity the >> counter-names are different depending on which base-language you've >> used for your windows servers. >> >> I don't know what they're named for english platforms (or any other >> for that matter), but you should be able to view them with that thing >> you can pop up when pressing ctrl-alt-del (task manager or whatever it's >> called). >> >> -- >> Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se >> OP5 AB www.op5.se >> Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 >> >> Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and >> terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war >> on peace. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial >> Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited >> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >> server and web deployment. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >> _______________________________________________ >> Nagios-users mailing list >> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users >> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when >> reporting any issue. >> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
