Hi all,

Thanks for a great product. I am managing Linux and Windows systems with Check_MK, Nagios and PNP4Nagios. I have an issue which I can’t seem to find an answer for.

I have some Windows perfmon counters I would like to monitor/run checks for. So I followed your directions here: http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_windows.html

I run the lodctr command to get the list of counters.

I find the counter reference ID and put this in check_mk.ini. Snippet of my check_mk.ini file:

[global]

    # Restrict access to certain IP addresses

    # only_from = 127.0.0.1 192.168.56.0/24

[winperf]

    # Select counters to extract. The following counters

    # are needed by checks shipped with check_mk.

    # counters = 10332:msx_queues

                counters = 13150:MainQueueSize

                counters = 13151:MainQueueSize_Num

                counters = 13160:PlayerCount

                counters = 13161:PlayerCount_Num

                counters = 13162:MaxPlayerCount

                counters = 13163:MaxPlayerCount_Num

                counters = 13414:proc_freq

                counters = 13415:proc_freq_mhz

I run from my Nagios box a check_mk –d hostname.fqdn to see what check_mk returns before I start inventorying the system, but I get some miscellaneous data about the perfmon counter and it does not provide me with any appropriate data. Below is a snippet of the data.

<<<winperf_MainQueueSize>>>

12970269825.06 13150

<<<winperf_MainQueueSize_Num>>>

12970269825.07 13151

<<<winperf_PlayerCount>>>

12970269825.07 13160

<<<winperf_PlayerCount_Num>>>

12970269825.07 13161

<<<winperf_MaxPlayerCount>>>

12970269825.07 13162

<<<winperf_MaxPlayerCount_Num>>>

12970269825.07 13163

<<<winperf_proc_freq>>>

12970269825.07 13414

<<<winperf_proc_freq_mhz>>>

12970269825.07 13415

Am I doing this correctly and if not, how am I supposed to get appropriate data out of perfmon counters? I can get this data from NSClient++ with some crude Perl scripts on the Nagios end, but it takes a long time for this data to be polled. In the NSClient++ side, I know that if I write some vbscript on the client side and poll the host this way, the check will function much faster, but I rather use Check_MK.  In the meantime, since I can’t get check_mk to do this, I will use NSClient++ until that time.

Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide to make the resolution to my problem a lot faster.

Thanks again for a great product.

Jesus

Hello List,

I have a question about the update process of check_mk I am still kind of new in the linux world so please forgive me the newbie level of the question.

I am wondering how we can update/upgrade check_mk, we are now running version 1.1.10p3 and would like to go to 1.1.12p6 (latest stable version) I have read the migration notes and don’t think there will be any trouble. Can I just run the setup.sh file and walk through the script? Or do I need to uninstall the old version first? Also is an update of the client site agent’s required?

Met vriendelijke groet,

Arnold Hölzel

Met vriendelijke groet,

Arnold Hölzel