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RE: Perfmon

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:05:08 GMT

Where is some documentation on how to tell this ZP to monitor specific things for a particular Windows server?? Does one simply bind it to /Devices/Servers/Windows and leave it at that??
Unfortunately, many ZPs assume that one is an advanced Zenoss user.

Thank you, Tom

RE: Perfmon

community@zenoss.org — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:40:35 GMT

Hi,

I have listed the readme from the egg file which should help. There are some sample graphs in the Zenpack which should also help.

Mark

README.TXT

This Zenpack remotely pulls performance counter data from Windows Performance Monitor.

This can be used as an alternative to using SNMP-Informant and WMI. The main reason to create this Zenpack was because the Exchange 2007 performance counters are not exposed to WMI.

To get the counters the Zenpack runs a perl script that uses "winexe" to remotely run the "typeperf" command on Windows Servers. The results from the typeperf command are sent back into Zenoss.

Included in the Zenpack are some sample counters that can be used as examples:

Exchange Users
Exchange Maximum Users
Exchange Active Users
CPU processor time

To get the syntax for the counters open up Performance Monitor under windows and search for the counter you want to use. The format should be "\Performance Object\Performance Counter".

The syntax for the perfmon script is:

perfmon.pl NUMBER_OF_COUNTERS HOSTNAME USERNAME PASSWORD COUNTER1 DATAPOINT1 COUNTER2...

   NUMBER_OF_COUNTERS : The number of counters for the script to retrieve.
   HOSTNAME : The ip address or server hostname.
   USERNAME : The username and password for the server. This comes from zWinUser.
   PASSWORD : Password for the username. This comes from zWinPassword.
   COUNTER1 : The Counter name to retrieve performance data from.
   DATAPOINT1 : The Datapoint name under Zenoss to store the counter data.
   Additional Counters and Datapoints as required. There should always be both a datapoint and counter.

RE: Perfmon

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:15:48 GMT

There seems to be an issue with compatability with the version of Winexe that I am using. The Winexe that I have output an extra line at the top of the output. I hack this replacement together. Use if you need.

Change the output line to:

$output = `\$ZENHOME/bin/winexe -U '$username'%'$password' //$hostname 'typeperf -sc 1 "$counter"' | tail -n6`;

that will make sure that only the pertenant lines are captured and any extra output is ignored.

RE: Perfmon

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:09:12 GMT

Will this work on Zenoss 3.0?

RE: Perfmon

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:34:25 GMT

Not until there is a Python 2.6 .egg and someone has tested it. Tip of the Month: Upgrading ZenPacks for Zenoss 3.0 has some tips for updating this and any other ZenPack for 3.0.

RE: Perfmon

community@zenoss.org — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:18:06 GMT

i've updated it for 3.x but i was only monitoring an app nothing for the windows env. i also changed it to use ssh instead of winexe so you'll need interix ssh for windows installed with shared keys.

if people are chasing it i'll make some changes and upload it.

RE: Perfmon

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:48:42 GMT

Hello there, I would like to use this Zenpack on Zenoss 3.x to monitor the CPUperf on SQLinstance.

Could someone please clarify, if the download above marked 2.4 works now? and if not where do I get the 2.6 version?

cheers

RE: Perfmon

community@zenoss.org — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:27:10 GMT

Is anyone working on a 3.x compatible version? The documentation on converting is over this newbies head.

Thanks.