Getting the most from Windows 2003

[Landstalker]

Hello all,

I just wondered if anyone had any tips or experiences of getting the most data from a Windows 2003 host?

I can get data from the interfaces and monitor the bandwidth etc, I can also on occasion monitor the running proccess in terms of numbers.

I cannot get details on disks, processor utilisation or anything else like that.

I have only the generic cacti templates installed and I'm using the snmp service on the Windows machine that comes with it.

Using cacti version cacti-0.8.6g and rrdtool rrdtool-1.2.11

Any ideas on how to get more information from them?

[BSOD2600]

I am monitoring the following on my win2k3/Xp hosts:

• Dual CPU
• DNS queries
• Disk space
• Processes
• WWW connections
• Traffic
• Cacti poller process
• Lots of MySQL stats
• Motherboard Monitor 5 Fans/temps/volts
• Memory usage
• HDD Health SMART values
• Individual process stats (cpu/memory usage)

Read the updated windows guide in my signature if you're having problems getting cacti set up. Also make sure you patch cacti. State the versions of everything you're running.

[Landstalker]

Are you monitoring those from a remote location or is it local to the machine that you have cacti installed on? I saw that your running IIS you see.

I have cacti installed on a Linux box, its all installed from Source using the pdf guide for reference which was made by Lee Carter.

I had to tweak it slightly and put the install directories where I wanted them but its all installed and working fine.

Here are the version I'm running of everything:

cacti-0.8.6g
cgilib-0.5
freetype-2.1.9
httpd-2.0.54
libart_lgpl-2.3.17
libpng-1.2.8-config
mysql-4.1.14
net-snmp-5.1.3.1
php-5.0.5
rrdtool-1.2.11
zlib-1.2.2

Now unless I've installed something as an rpm along the way to make it work they should all be my versions.

The trouble I have is I've got Windows 2000/XP clients template but as I said it only shows me being able to graph/record the data from interfaces, processes and logged in users.

How did you get it to log the other things? Did you have to create you own script for it?


Here is an example, the Get Processor information returns 0 rows and running in debug mode produces this:

+ Running data query [9].
+ Found type = '6 '[script query].
+ Found data query XML file at '/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cacti/resource/script_server/host_cpu.xml'
+ XML file parsed ok.
+ Executing script for list of indexes '/usr/local/httpd/php/bin/php -q /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cacti/scripts/ss_host_cpu.php 192.168.73.212 20 1:161:500:public:cactiuser::MD5::[None] index'
+ Executing script query '/usr/local/httpd/php/bin/php -q /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cacti/scripts/ss_host_cpu.php 192.168.73.212 20 1:161:500:public:cactiuser::MD5::[None] query index'
+ Found data query XML file at '/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cacti/resource/script_server/host_cpu.xml'
+ Found data query XML file at '/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cacti/resource/script_server/host_cpu.xml'
+ Found data query XML file at '/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cacti/resource/script_server/host_cpu.xml'



Starting to feel a fool, just saw in your signature: http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=6661

Will try these and let you know.

[BSOD2600]

Yes, for everything else that I'm graphing which is not included with the default Windows template, I created/used custom scripts. All which can be found on the Script forum.

Several of the scripts use WMI, and to my knowledge linux users are unable to run those against a windows host. If you installed SNMP Informant, it would let you monitor a few more things via SNMP, which normally does not come with the MS SNMP Agent.