Need help with scripts please...

[rafchumley]

Heya All,

I am trying to monitor an Exchange server for various counters. The host is running nsclient properly, it seems. I created the following script using another as a template:

#!/usr/bin/perl



$a = q!-p 1248 -v COUNTER -l!;

$b = q!"\\MSExchangeIS Mailbox(!;

$c = q!)\\Client Logons"!;

$d = q!"\\MSExchangeIS Mailbox(!;
$e = q!)"\\Active Client Logons"!;


$client = `/srv/www/htdocs/cacti/scripts/check_nt -H 172.16.1.5 $a $b$ARGV[1]$c`;
$aclient = `/srv/www/htdocs/cacti/scripts/check_nt -H 172.16.1.5 $a $d$ARGV[1]$e`;

chomp ($client);

print "$client\n";
chomp ($aclient);
print "$aclient\n";


This is my test version I run directly against the target from the CLI. It returns 0 for both values like so:

perl Test_MsExchangeIS_User_Conn.pl
0
0

The same counters, checked directly on the machine using Performance Monitor, were returning values >0. When put into Cacti, the graphs are created but all values are nan. The Cacti logs say:

10/12/2005 10:05:01 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] DS[3] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
10/12/2005 10:05:01 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] DS[4] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
10/12/2005 10:05:01 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] DS[5] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
10/12/2005 10:05:01 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] DS[6] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
10/12/2005 10:05:01 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[1] DS[7] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
10/12/2005 10:05:57 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[20] DS[384] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
10/12/2005 10:05:58 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[20] DS[385] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
10/12/2005 10:05:58 AM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[20] DS[386] WARNING: Result from CMD not valid. Partial Result:
10/12/2005 10:05:59 AM - SYSTEM STATS: Time:58.8637 Method:cmd.php Processes:1 Threads:N/A Hosts:18 HostsPerProcess:18 DataSources:935 RRDsProcessed:361

I am unclear on how to troubleshoot this issue. I don't write Perl scripts. I can't seem to figure out where to find host or DS numbers to tell what is failing here. I am at a loss at this point.

Any help at all would be GREATLY appreciated.

Regards,

Chumley

[rafchumley]

Heya Again!

OK...so looking at the properties of the Perfmon Counter it looks like the proper syntax, including the value of $ARGV[1] should be:

$client = `/srv/www/htdocs/cacti/scripts/check_nt -H 172.16.1.5 -p 1248 -v COUNTER -l \\MSExchangeIS Mailbox[_Total]\\Client Logons`;

yet running this from the CLI:

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$client = `/srv/www/htdocs/cacti/scripts/check_nt -H 172.16.1.5 -p 1248 -v COUNTER -l \\MSExchangeIS Mailbox[_Total]\\Client Logons`;
chomp ($client);
print "$client\n";

Still returns a value of zero, when running the corresponding Perfmon Counter directly on the target machine says 47.

I have tried every permutation of this I can think of...one slash, 2 slashes..spaces..no spaces....\\HOSTNAME\\MSEch.... all to no avail.

Can anyone tell me where I am going wrong here?

I'm going to run some simpler scripts from the board against this box now to verify the nsclient install..it shows as a service etc tho..and I expect I'd get a timeout if it wasn't there to answer at all...

Umm...also..if you could clue me in on how to get ARGV[1] into the mix when the graph is set for the device....but I have to make it work from CLI first, lol.

S! (Salute!)

Chum

[rafchumley]