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Phobos182 - I'm using Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_LogicalDisk in my script which which only works with Windows 2003. If you have issues with the data that the graph provides, don't use it. This script is working great for me. I'm looking for maximums at polling intervals, not averages. I think ...

You'll need Windows Server 2003 for this to work properly.

I fixed this by changing the account the the worker process runs under in IIS 6.0. The account I used has access to the WMI repository on the remote machine. Steps: 1. Open the IIS Manager in Administrative Tools 2. Expand Application Pools 3. Right-Click DefaultAppPool (or the custom pool you have ...

This is a Data Query Template. You will not see anything listed under Data Input Method, but you will under Data Query. It gets these values from the Data Query Script.


Phobos182 - Do you know anything about Data Query Templates?

If you look at the data template are the 3 following checked?

Index Type
Index Vaule
Output Type ID

These vaules should be automatically populated by the Perl script. I'm kinda new at this too. Anyone know the answer to this?

Oops.. I have edited my original message to include the appropriate template.

That's not true... I manage over 200 RAIDed servers here that would prove that disk % read and write counters work perfectly on RAID sets. I really built this graph to focus on the disk queueing piece. It shows me when I need to add more spindles to my RAID sets or increase my SAN bandwidth to a par...

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Here is another data query template that will help you verify high / over-utilized disk I/O on a system.

Did you take the .txt off the perl script?

Other than that I'm not skilled enought to help you unfortunately..

Is this working for anyone else?

Hey.. I'm a noob too =P

The data query should auto populate these fields. Did you put all the files in the proper directories above?

Picture of the graph.

Here is my first Data Query Template... Enjoy...

I'm interested in doing this too, but I believe you can only query fields for Data Queries and not Data Input Methods.