Windows Xymon PS Client 1.98 disk RRD collection issue
Hmm, RRD collection for "disk" seems to be broken for me with Xymon PS Client v1.98.
Based on my interpretation of the code in xymon/rrd/do_disk.c, see below, I changed the following in xymonclient.ps1
Line 1347 from:
$mountpoint, `
to
"/FIXED/$mountpoint", `
Now both the "C" and "MountPointTest" as per disk chuck below are collected OK:
v1.93:
[disk] Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Label Summary(Total\Avail GB) C 104753148 41374564 63378584 39% C:\ SYSTEM 99.90\60.44 MountPointTest 104753148 41374564 63378584 39% C:\MountPointTest\ SYSTEM 99.90\60.44
Mod v1.98
[disk] Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Label Summary(Total\Avail GB) C 104753148 41304580 63448568 39% /FIXED/C:\ SYSTEM 99.90\60.51 MountPointTest 104753148 41304580 63448568 39% /FIXED/C:\MountPointTest\ SYSTEM 99.90\60.51
It would probably be best to do this quick hack or similar to restore RRD collection/graphs until if/when the "do_disk.c" can be taught about the Xymon PS Client disk output?
Cheers, Gavin Stone-Tolcher, IT Support Officer, Network Operations and Incident Response Information Technology Services The University of Queensland Level 4, Prentice Building, St Lucia 4072 T: +61 7 334 66645, M: +61 401 140 838 E: g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au<mailto:g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au> W: www.its.uq.edu.au<http://www.its.uq.edu.au>
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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Gavin Stone-Tolcher Sent: Wednesday, 25 February 2015 11:13 AM To: 'zak.beck at accenture.com'; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows Xymon PS Client 1.98
And one final one for the list.
If this is the final output of "disk" for the new powershell client, then it would be nice if the Xymon server module
xymond/rrd/do_disk.c
could be trained to graph the mountpoints in addition to the driveletter. I am running server v4.3.18 and the mountpoint is not being RRD collected or graphed. I should point out that the BBWIN collected mountpoints were also not being graphed either, so it that sense it is the same situation.
I see we have a couple of windows client types handled in that module, DT_NT and DT_BBWIN. Both of these clients are getting on a bit and it appears that the powershell client might be the way to go for the future with Windows platforms, so maybe DT_PS is needed?
For reference, an example chunk from client message from my test system is:
[disk] Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Label Summary(Total\Avail GB) C 104753148 41374564 63378584 39% C:\ SYSTEM 99.90\60.44 MountPointTest 104753148 41374564 63378584 39% C:\MountPointTest\ SYSTEM 99.90\60.44
The module looks to be treating this as BB_NT output as we begin with "Filesystem" like the BB_NT client.
I think this is the codethat might be causing an issue:
if ( (dsystype == DT_NT) && (*(columns[5])) && (strchr(columns[0], '/')) )
where BBNT client would have something like "/FIXED/C" being evaluated?
I attach a previous email to the list where the same issue was seen. In that case modifying the poweshell client to display something like "/FIXED/F:\ORAARCHIVE" for a mountpoint caused the mountpoints to be collected/graphed.
If someone could look into this for a future update it would be appreciated, as my windows guys would like to see graphs for their mountpoints.
Cheers, Gavin Stone-Tolcher, IT Support Officer, Network Operations and Incident Response Information Technology Services The University of Queensland Level 4, Prentice Building, St Lucia 4072 T: +61 7 334 66645, M: +61 401 140 838 E: g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au<mailto:g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au> W: www.its.uq.edu.au<http://www.its.uq.edu.au>
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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of zak.beck at accenture.com Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2015 11:07 PM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Windows Xymon PS Client 1.98
Hi
I've just committed version 1.98 to the project repository - http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/.
This update has a number of fixes and additions thanks to the suggestions and reaction to the previous patches, thanks to Gavin, Brandon and others for your feedback.
List of changes:
Mount points are now shown in the disk section, similar to BBWin. The drive label has been added and the column alignment adjusted to suit drives up to 999TB.The eventlogswanted directive now supports wildcards in the list of event logs field. So you can now return all event logs like this:
eventlogswanted:*:250000
The eventlogswanted directive also supports an optional fourth field to specify which levels of event should be returned - critical, error, warning, information, verbose. By default, all are returned. Values in the field should be comma-delimited, e.g.:
eventlogswanted:*:250000:error,warning,critical
The dirsize directive now works for files as well as directories.
Thanks to everyone, I really appreciate your feedback.
Regards Zak
Hi
Oops - sorry about that, you're right.
I have added '/FIXED' to the mountpoint information in the latest commit and it seems to work for me now.
Thanks
Zak
From: Gavin Stone-Tolcher [mailto:g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au] Sent: 25 February 2015 04:55 To: Gavin Stone-Tolcher; Beck, Zak; xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: Windows Xymon PS Client 1.98 disk RRD collection issue
Hmm, RRD collection for "disk" seems to be broken for me with Xymon PS Client v1.98.
Based on my interpretation of the code in xymon/rrd/do_disk.c, see below, I changed the following in xymonclient.ps1
Line 1347 from:
$mountpoint, `
to
"/FIXED/$mountpoint", `
Now both the "C" and "MountPointTest" as per disk chuck below are collected OK:
v1.93:
[disk]
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Label Summary(Total\Avail GB)
C 104753148 41374564 63378584 39% C:
SYSTEM 99.90\60.44
MountPointTest 104753148 41374564 63378584 39% C:\MountPointTest\ SYSTEM 99.90\60.44
Mod v1.98
[disk]
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Label Summary(Total\Avail GB)
C 104753148 41304580 63448568 39% /FIXED/C:
SYSTEM 99.90\60.51
MountPointTest 104753148 41304580 63448568 39% /FIXED/C:\MountPointTest\ SYSTEM 99.90\60.51
It would probably be best to do this quick hack or similar to restore RRD collection/graphs until if/when the "do_disk.c" can be taught about the Xymon PS Client disk output?
Cheers,
Gavin Stone-Tolcher, IT Support Officer, Network Operations and Incident Response
Information Technology Services
The University of Queensland
Level 4, Prentice Building, St Lucia 4072
T: +61 7 334 66645, M: +61 401 140 838
E: <mailto:g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au> g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au W: <http://www.its.uq.edu.au> www.its.uq.edu.au
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From: Xymon [ <mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Gavin Stone-Tolcher Sent: Wednesday, 25 February 2015 11:13 AM To: 'zak.beck at accenture.com'; <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows Xymon PS Client 1.98
And one final one for the list.
If this is the final output of "disk" for the new powershell client, then it would be nice if the Xymon server module
xymond/rrd/do_disk.c
could be trained to graph the mountpoints in addition to the driveletter. I am running server v4.3.18 and the mountpoint is not being RRD collected or graphed.
I should point out that the BBWIN collected mountpoints were also not being graphed either, so it that sense it is the same situation.
I see we have a couple of windows client types handled in that module, DT_NT and DT_BBWIN.
Both of these clients are getting on a bit and it appears that the powershell client might be the way to go for the future with Windows platforms, so maybe DT_PS is needed?
For reference, an example chunk from client message from my test system is:
[disk]
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted Label Summary(Total\Avail GB)
C 104753148 41374564 63378584 39% C:
SYSTEM 99.90\60.44
MountPointTest 104753148 41374564 63378584 39% C:\MountPointTest\ SYSTEM 99.90\60.44
The module looks to be treating this as BB_NT output as we begin with "Filesystem" like the BB_NT client.
I think this is the codethat might be causing an issue:
if ( (dsystype == DT_NT) && (*(columns[5])) && (strchr(columns[0], '/')) )
where BBNT client would have something like "/FIXED/C" being evaluated?
I attach a previous email to the list where the same issue was seen. In that case modifying the poweshell client to display something like "/FIXED/F:\ORAARCHIVE" for a mountpoint caused the mountpoints to be collected/graphed.
If someone could look into this for a future update it would be appreciated, as my windows guys would like to see graphs for their mountpoints.
Cheers,
Gavin Stone-Tolcher, IT Support Officer, Network Operations and Incident Response
Information Technology Services
The University of Queensland
Level 4, Prentice Building, St Lucia 4072
T: +61 7 334 66645, M: +61 401 140 838
E: <mailto:g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au> g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au W: <http://www.its.uq.edu.au> www.its.uq.edu.au
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From: Xymon [ <mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com> mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of <mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com> zak.beck at accenture.com Sent: Tuesday, 24 February 2015 11:07 PM To: <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Windows Xymon PS Client 1.98
Hi
I've just committed version 1.98 to the project repository - http://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/HEAD/tree/sandbox/WinPSClient/.
This update has a number of fixes and additions thanks to the suggestions and reaction to the previous patches, thanks to Gavin, Brandon and others for your feedback.
List of changes:
Mount points are now shown in the disk section, similar to BBWin.The drive label has been added and the column alignment adjusted to suit drives up to 999TB.
The eventlogswanted directive now supports wildcards in the listof event logs field. So you can now return all event logs like this:
eventlogswanted:*:250000
field to specify which levels of event should be returned - critical, error, warning, information, verbose. By default, all are returned. Values in the field should be comma-delimited, e.g.:The eventlogswanted directive also supports an optional fourth
eventlogswanted:*:250000:error,warning,critical
The dirsize directive now works for files as well as directories.
Thanks to everyone, I really appreciate your feedback.
Regards
Zak
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