Graphing Windows Performance Monitor Counters?

[Brashquido]

Hi All,

Just Wondering if anyone had come up with a way of graphing a Windows Performance Monitor Counter log saved in text CSV or TSV format into Cacti? There are hundreds of Windows Performance monitor Counters depending on what you have installed, and if I could find a way of converting their log files into a format cacti can understand, then there will be one common script that would enable Cacti to monitor pretty much anything in Windows.

[Thomas]

You don't need to export the Counters to a text file. Just use NSClient (downloadable from http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/ including docu) to get any Windows Counter.

[Brashquido]

Wow, that looks like it is exactly what I am after. I can't wait to give it a go tomorrow

[jasonm]

I'm interested in getting this running as well. Unfortunately, I'm running Cacti on Win32, and there doesn't seem to be a check_nt for Win32...anyone have a solution?

[Thomas]

Check the "Scripts and Other Addons for Cacti" Section for "WMI". You will find a lot of scripts that let you access the Performance Counters without NSClient.
Check http://forums.cacti.net/viewtopic.php?t ... c&start=30 for cacti-ext.zip to get started.

[Brashquido]

Are bugger. It isn't what I'm after . As jasonm pointed out there is no check_nt executable for Win32. So bascially this is a program to allow *nix systems monitor Win32 performance counters?

[Thomas]

Dominic, see my last post. On Windows you can use WMI to access the performance counters of other Windows Boxes.

[Brashquido]

I did look into that briefly Thomas, thanks for that . I've ended up modifying a perl script I found on the net to output data from Performance Monitor CSV logfiles in a format RDDTool can read. I've just got to get that data into Cacti now .

If I can get my method pefected then it will be very portable as any system running perl will be able to monitor Windows performance logs without needing NSClient or any other seperate software.