Windows Perfom counters in Cacti

ilusha10 · Post by **ilusha10** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:17 pm

Hi,

Is it possible to display Windows Perfmon counters in Cacti and if it is, how to do it or where to look for info?

Thanks

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:32 pm

Two options:
1) use free/pay version of Snmp informant
2) use WMI scripts to query all of the performance counters. If coming from linux, will need to set up nsclient to achieve this.

ilusha10 · Post by **ilusha10** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:07 pm

Where i can get snmp informant and ncclient?
Thanks
Ilya

maw · Post by **maw** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:13 pm

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ilusha10 · Post by **ilusha10** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:01 pm

Is there a document how to configure Cacti to use snmp informant?
Thanks
Ilya

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:14 pm

1) search the forums for others who have made snmp-informant scripts for cacti
2) learn to create your own: http://docs.cacti.net/node/225

crackrocksteady · Post by **crackrocksteady** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:13 pm

You can also use a Perl Script to query the perfmon data directly. Not the best way of doing it, but it can be quite simple to setup. This is useful if the data you require is not exposed through WMI.

See my script mgcp.pl.txt in the following post for an idea.

http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t=10857

Good luck

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:23 am

Ah, interesting. didn't know there was a native Perl lib for it. Good to know.

crackrocksteady · Post by **crackrocksteady** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:09 pm

Yeah it is quite useful, especially coz it can be knocked out quite quickly and easily.

the module is called Win32-perfmon, like I mentioned in the other post it isn't availble through the active state repo so I got it through a third party repo.

XaNO · Post by **XaNO** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:16 am

At the moment i'm working on my complementary work. I'm monitoring a way from the Client to Servers and tings like that. I wrote a script, that read the informations from PerfMon over a MSSQL-DB. I implemented this Script as a Data Input Method in Cacti. If you would use this Script and you have some Questions, just ask.

crackrocksteady · Post by **crackrocksteady** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:07 am

I don't know vb or german, can you explain what is going on in that script?

It looks like your storing perfmon data in a SQL db and then querying it out at the remote end??

If so, that is a pretty complicated way too skin that cat.

Fletch

XaNO · Post by **XaNO** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:07 am

It looks like your storing perfmon data in a SQL db and then querying it out at the remote end??

Thats right.
In Performance Monitor i configure the counter log to store the Data in a SQL db. After this i run this script with one parameter. This parameter is the name from the Counter Log in Perfmon. The Result from this VB-Script looks like: "Value1:0.566318253379072 Value2:3.86306665824032 Value3:0 Value4:0 Value5:0 Value6:0 Value7:0 Value8:0". I wrote this script to read at max 8 values. The values from perfmon come back in the same order how there are added in perfmon. The input string in the data input method from cacti is: "cscript.exe /nologo <path_cacti>/scripts/output_perfmon.vbs <CounterLog>".
I hope you can understand my terrible english

If so, that is a pretty complicated way too skin that cat.

Thats right, but for my case ist perfect, why im using the SQL-DB also for other monitoring scripts.

crackrocksteady · Post by **crackrocksteady** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:28 pm

[quote]Thats right, but for my case ist perfect, why im using the SQL-DB also for other monitoring scripts.[/quote]

Well that's the most important thing.

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