Re: [Devmon] Devmon/Nagios/Nsclient

[Buchan M. <bg...@st...>]

On Monday 01 June 2009 16:13:51 joh...@ac... wrote:
> Thanks for the reply but...
>
> I am using the win2k3server template but it lacks what I am trying to
> get from the windows servers.  I also have bbwin installed and it
> doesn't appear that I can use it to provide the perfmon data (that I
> know of).
>
> Although Cacti is able to retrieve disk queue length from
> Nagios/Nsclient

Which nsclient are you using? http://nsclient.org/nscp/ or 
http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/ ?

> via snmp

As far as I can see, communication between nagios and nsclient isn't via SNMP.

> I figure there must be a way for devmon to also
> get this information.  But, the problem is I don't know exactly how
> Cacti is able to get the perfmon data through snmp/nagios/nsclient.
> There doesn't appear to be a specific OID for this information so I
> wonder how Cacti gets it and how to have devmon collect it also.

The question (from a devmon perspective) isn't necessarily how nsclient gets 
it, but whether there is any SNMP agent that provides this information. If 
there is, we can collect it with devmon, if there isn't, we can't.

It may be possible to have a separate Hobbit/Xymon extension for retrieving 
the data from nsclient, or a plugin for BBWin to collect the available WMI 
data (which nsclient collects), but this wouldn't be related to devmon.

Regards,
Buchan