Exchange Perl Scripts via WMI

[mbittman]

Can anyone tell me if these can work on Linux? If i'm using NSClient on my windows boxes, will it work? Im get nan on all my graphs.

Micah

[DevilSun]

Can you run the script manually, and what are your results?

[mbittman]

I am having trouble on figuring out exactly how to make the Exchange graphs work from Linux box. I am running Nagios and NSClient on my exchange server. But am not sure how to get the graphs to work in cacti. I tried importing the Exchange - Filtering Statistics xml template but graph all show NA. Tried other templates and get the same. I am retarded thanks.
Micah

[richardkraal]

sorry for the little kick ; )

was busy with some of the exchange templates

after some hours a had the connection template working

but w32_exch_query_isstats.pl is after 5 hours still not working

when i run the script from cl:

perl c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\cacti\scripts\w32_exch_query_mailboxstats.pl <ip> get SendQueueSize,ReceiveQueueSize,MessagesSe
ntPermin,MessagesSubmittedPermin,MessagesDeliveredPermin <instance>

ip is no problem for me, but the instance namen? do they mean the store name?

when it is the store name I get the following result


Check the computer and class name.
No information was found on the specified class!


has somebody this script working or has an idea what to do with the error

[DevilSun]

The normal "instance" is considered "_Total" without quotes.

[Brettw]

Hi All,

I have the scripts working fine for our local domain however we have another domain which has an exch server on it that i would like to monitor.

There is a way that you can connect to WMI using with a username and pw however im not sure how or where to put it in the perl scripts..

The normal code for example would be like the below, excuse the average coding

strComputer = "x.x.x.x"
strDomain = "mydomain"
strUser = "myusername"
strPassword = "mywp"

Set objSWbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objSWbemServices = objSWbemLocator.ConnectServer(strComputer,"root\cimv2",strUser,strPassword,"MS_409","ntlmdomain:" + strDomain)
Set colSwbemObjectSet = objSWbemServices.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Process")
For Each objProcess in colSWbemObjectSet
Wscript.Echo "Process Name: " & objProcess.Name
Next

Any help would be great.

Cheers

Brett

[Diggit2001]

Hullo there. I've seen one or two people ask how to get this working on Linux but I havent seen an answer posted yet. I have the NSClient installed on my Exchange 2k3 box but I'm still having no luck. Can anyone help?

Thanks!

-Chris

[Brettw]

Hi All,

Ive just installed the scripts and all seem to be working well however on the Exchange Users graph it seems to peak at 100 then doesnt graph?



Any ideas would be welcome

[Phobos182]

Officially broken. Graph Template is not parsing the output correctly.

[CACTI LOG]
08/08/2005 10:20:15 AM - CACTID: Poller[0] Host[30] ERROR: Empty result [exchange2003.tasconline.com]: 'perl C:\cacti\cacti-0.8.6f\scripts\w32_exch_query_mailboxstats.pl exchange2003 get SendQueueSize,ReceiveQueueSize,MessagesSentPermin,MessagesSubmittedPermin,MessagesDeliveredPermin _Total'

[COMMAND LINE OUTPUT]
C:\cacti\rrdtool>perl C:\cacti\cacti-0.8.6f\scripts\w32_exch_query_mailboxstats.pl exchange2003 get sendQueueSize,ReceiveQueueSize,MessagesSentPermin,MessagesSubmittedPermin,MessagesDeliveredPermin _Total
SendQueueSize:0 ReceiveQueueSize:0 MessagesSentPermin:13 MessagesSubmittedPermin
:12 MessagesDeliveredPermin:16

[fode]

I am having trouble on figuring out exactly how to make the Exchange graphs work from Linux box. I am running Nagios and NSClient on my exchange server. But am not sure how to get the graphs to work in cacti. I tried importing the Exchange - Filtering Statistics xml template but graph all show NA. Tried other templates and get the same. I am retarded thanks.
Micah

I hacked up a quick script to query the NSClient on Windows through the check_nt program that comes with Nagios. It uses the same template that is posted in this thread (cacti_graph_template_exchange_delivery_statistics.xml), but ignores the Instance Name parameter... it just uses the Host Parameter for the IP of the Exchange Server.

It's a bit dirty, but it works fine for me.

It assumes that check_nt is in /usr/lib/nagios/plugins. Otherwise, change the script.

If anybody can tell me the WMI Counters to query for a front-end Exchange 2003 box that doesn't host any mailboxes, that would be great... I'm looking for mail in/out, and bounces. I've been fighting with the Performance monitor looking for information regarding this, but none of the counters seem to work.

I'm also wondering exactly how accurate these numbers are, since they are per minute, instead of per 5 minutes. There was a previous question about that here, but nobody answered it.

Enjoy.

[DevilSun]

Officially broken. Graph Template is not parsing the output correctly.

What is exactly broken about it? Mine seems to be working for about the past year...

[DevilSun]

Ive just installed the scripts and all seem to be working well however on the Exchange Users graph it seems to peak at 100 then doesnt graph?

It appears I had a maximum limit of 100 on one of the data template ("Exchange - I.S. Stats") data source items ("Count Users"). You might be able to change it to 0 and it not have the max and it will be implemented immediately, worst case you'll have to recreate the data source after you change it to 0...I'm not sure -- Give it a try.

[thisisharper]

Is there a way to automatically put the instance name used on the graph itself?

[anzzang77]

is this working on Win2000server with exchange2000?

[kermitthefrog]

Hi,

I have imported all templates, and etc...
I have some empty graphs.

running: w2k3 and Exchange 2003



any one willing to help me?
Thanks