Monitoring Windows physical disk performance

Petunya · Post by **Petunya** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:13 am

This template monitor's physical disk perfomance of Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 from Windows installed cacti box.

Contents:
1) Script
2) DataQuery definition file
3) Template file includes dataquery, graph template and datatemplate

mcutting · Post by **mcutting** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:26 pm

I can't get this to work - is the data template missing ?

Thanks

ejensen · Post by **ejensen** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:17 pm

Same here. When trying to add a graph I am prompted with three input boxes:

Custom Data [Template: WMI -Physical disk Data Template]
Index Type
Index Value
Output Type ID

What needs to go into these values?

mcutting · Post by **mcutting** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:00 pm

Looks like the data template is missing - there is no evidence of it on my system.

Petunya · Post by **Petunya** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:55 am

Archive updated!

mcutting · Post by **mcutting** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:56 am

Sorry, but this still doesn't work - the same set of three values are missing, and even placing the XML file into script_queries does not cure this. Also, the actual query itself is not listed under "Associated Data Queries", nor is is listed in either of the Collection Methods...

I've checked the XML file, and it looks ok - any ideas ?

Thanks

ejensen · Post by **ejensen** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:15 am

Same problems as before.

And what is Launch.exe in the archive?

mcutting · Post by **mcutting** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:42 am

ejensen wrote:Same problems as before.

And what is Launch.exe in the archive?

Looks like this is used to delay the start of the script by 15 seconds - shouldn't be required as far as I see...?

Petunya · Post by **Petunya** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:01 am

Sorry for bad archive

Data query + graph template + data template are in attachement

I use launch.exe to limit execution time for the script. Sometime wmi scripts needs too much time to work and other poller operations does not have time in 5 minute poller interval.

ejensen · Post by **ejensen** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:21 pm

i imported this additional script and changed the xml file to remove the launch.exe reference. Added the new data query to a device "WMI - Get Physical Drive Performance " and it shows no items and no rows. I ran a verbose query and see the script running, but not showing any return data. I manually run the script and get the expected items returned (e.g. drive labels and such).

Any other suggestions?

BTW... Thanks for sharing!

mcutting · Post by **mcutting** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:23 pm

I came across the same issue. I'm running Apache (WAMP) under Windows. I had to change the Apache services to the same user account that runs the poller for this to work.

I was able to obtain data, but according to this template, all the disks in my servers are maxxing out at 100% ?????? Another template (that does sort of the same thing) shows the disk % at around 4%.....

ejensen · Post by **ejensen** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:51 pm

I was able to get this script to work against the localhost, but not remote servers. I have other WMI scripts running against other servers so I dont think it is a permissions issue.

mcutting · Post by **mcutting** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:30 pm

For the localhost, this makes sense. However, a local account used for either IIS Worker or Apache services won't be able to pull data on a remote system.

I had the same issue, and this was the fix.

ejensen · Post by **ejensen** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:21 pm

not sure what your fix was? can you share it?

as for the localhost running this script, it runs but no graph is created. When i turn on debug for the graph I see the following error:

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ERROR: unknown option '--alt-autoscale-min'

any suggestions?

Post by **gandalf** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:57 pm

This option is supported at least by latest rrdtool 1.2. Which rrdtool version are you using?
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Monitoring Windows physical disk performance

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