Re: [Devmon] Devmon/Nagios/Nsclient

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-----Original Message-----
>From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bg...@st...] 
>Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:59 AM
>To: Rothlisberger, John R.
>Cc: dev...@li...
>Subject: Re: [Devmon] Devmon/Nagios/Nsclient

>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/ ?
Nsclient.ready2run.nl v02.01

>> via snmp

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

Ok, after further review there is more in this then I had previously
mentioned.  It is Cacti that is able to get this info via snmp but it
uses check_nt plugin (http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_nt) to do the
actual work.  I may be able to adapt these scripts with xymon.

>> 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

Thanks,

John

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