Windows performance counters & VBS/WMI via SNMP

[catchtime]

Thanks for your advice.

I have followed it, but it seems no effect.
First, i modified counter.ini as below:
[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.6]
flag=norefresh
counter=memory\Available Bytes

Second, i modified the snmp timeout to 2000 for my device.

Now current status is as below:
1. [root@nfs_server ~]# snmpget -v 2c -c public huzsbk01 1.3.6.1.4.1.15.6
SNMPv2-SMI::enterprises.15.6 = INTEGER: 1547595776
2. No error at log file.
3. No status report at cacti log
4. But still no graph drawing.

Is there something missing or wrong?

Thanks

[Pilly]

Hi,

has anyone tried this with getting results from Server 2008?

everything I do comes back with a value of 0

eg:

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[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.2]
counter=ProcessorPerformance\percentage\PPM_Processor_0

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snmpwalk -c public -v1 10.4.2.39 .1.3.6.1.4.1.15.2

returns:
iso.3.6.1.4.1.15.2 = Counter64: 0

Even though i see on performance monitor is not zero ?

Any ideas?

[erwan.l]

Hi Pilly,
Have you tried the 32bits version?

Regards,
Erwan.

[Pilly]

Pretty Sure thats the one I used.

Copied both files to the system32, used the regagentWow6432.reg file to register it.

that not right?

[erwan.l]

looks like you are using the 64bits version (because of the counter64 type above).
the 64 bits is not yet "mature".

make sure you use the 32bits by doing this :

"64 to 32 bits mode :
Use the snmptools.dll 32 bits version in windows 64 bits platform by using regagentWow6432.reg and copy the snmptools.DLL file to the windows folder then, not system32."

/Erwan

[Pilly]

Still comming up with a Counter64: 0

I stoped the snmp service, deleted the 64 bit version. and ive got a few numbers appearing now. I'll have another go.

[erwan.l]

oki, interesting.
make sure you get the latest version from here : http://erwan.labalec.fr/snmptools/snmptools2.zip .

Indeed, the latest 32bits version does not send any counter64 values.

Thanks,
Erwan.

[Pilly]

Im having problems on 2008, trying to get processor performance.

[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.2]
counter=ProcessorPerformance\percentage\*

ive also tried

[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.2]
counter=ProcessorPerformance\percentage\_Total

One give a result of 0 and the other null, i can see from the graph i should be getting a result of 70.

any ideas?

[erwan.l]

Hi Pilly,
The * thing wont work (yet) with snmptools.
Previous in that thread was also a discussion with the processorperformance counter.

Can you try a standard counter like LogicalDisk\Free Megabytes\_Total to assert snmptools works ok for you on w2k8 (it does for me).

Also, could you attach the log file?

Thanks,
Erwan.

[sa22]

Hi erwan.l,
By querying counter=PhysicalDisk\Avg. Disk Queue Length\_Total we have last-second data from performance counter, but this is not what we need... Do you have any.vbs that can return last-5-minutes rounded data instead of last-second ?

[erwan.l]

Hi Sa22,

something like that I guess :

Const wbemFlagReturnImmediately = &h10
Const wbemFlagForwardOnly = &h20

strServer = "."

Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts://" & strServer & "/root\cimv2")
Set objInstances = objWMI.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_PhysicalDisk where Name='0 C:'", "WQL", _
wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly)

On Error Resume Next
For Each objInstance in objInstances
With objInstance
wscript.stdout.write .AvgDiskQueueLength
End With
On Error Goto 0
Next

Regards,
Erwan.

[stormonts]

Stormonts

May be a silly question but you did check the maximum value in the data template and/or the upper limit in the graph template?

Regards,
Erwan.

Yes, and both values were above what snmpget was returning for the OIDs.

[Pilly]

Just a question

[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.6.1]
counter=LogicalDisk\Avg. Disk sec/Read\F:
[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.6.2]
counter=LogicalDisk\Avg. Disk sec/Write\F:

On the performance monitor its : Average 0.004 Max: 0.08 etc, so when polled it always comes up as 0... how could i graph it... is it worth it?

[eichi]

Hi there,

i'm sorry for this post, but i need your help. In fact of Cacti and snmptools i'm a really noob.
But now i should use these tools and i read the most threads and documents, but i'm not able to get this tools work.

Maybe someone here, which can explain me how to configure the "Data Source" and the "New Graph" in cacti to get the informations from the snmptools.

I attached the counters.ini (renamed as counters.txt) http://forums.cacti.net/download.php?id=17625, maybe i understand somethink wrong and my counters.ini is incorrect. But with the command snmpwalk -v 1 -c public {IP} {OID} i get some informations. But after 5 or 6 lines (my second Problem) i get an timeout.

I have about 100 servers and about 30 objects, which i should display in cacti. Must i create for every server and every object a data source in cacti?

Thanks a lot for your help. I know, i shouldn't ask in this forum, i should take a workshop or some books about this material. But still i hope that someone can help me. And excuse my for my english.

Kind regards
Sven

[ori]

Hi There,
Is the SNMP tool suitable for production environments?
Are there commercial tools with similar functionality (+support and maintenance...)

Thanks.