Monitoring Windows physical disk performance

Petunya · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

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 · Cacti Pro User Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 974

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

Thanks

ejensen · Cacti User Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 55

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 · Cacti Pro User Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 974

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

Petunya · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

Archive updated!

mcutting · Cacti Pro User Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 974

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 · Cacti User Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 55

Same problems as before.

And what is Launch.exe in the archive?

mcutting · Cacti Pro User Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 974

Petunya · Joined: 09 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

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 · Cacti User Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 55

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 · Cacti Pro User Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 974

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 · Cacti User Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 55

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 · Cacti Pro User Joined: 16 Oct 2006 Posts: 974

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 · Cacti User Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 55

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:

gandalf · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject:

This option is supported at least by latest rrdtool 1.2. Which rrdtool version are you using?
Reinhard