Monitor Disk IO and paging on windows
list Neil Simmonds
Hi all, Before I start looking at potentially re-inventing the wheel, does anyone have a BBWin external script for monitoring Disk IO and paging on a Windows server that they would be willing to share? Regards, Neil Simmonds Operation Analyst (Operations Support Group) Express Gifts Limited Express House Clayton Business Park Accrington Lancashire BB5 5JY T: 01254 303092 | E: user-8188d25e65e4@xymon.invalid Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a separate file is confidential and intended solely for the Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request will destroy the information and remove it from their records. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If you have received this email in error please notify our IT helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 303030
list Neil Simmonds
Hi all, Before I start looking at potentially re-inventing the wheel, does anyone have a BBWin external script for monitoring Disk IO and paging on a Windows server that they would be willing to share? Regards, Neil Simmonds Operation Analyst (Operations Support Group) Express Gifts Limited Express House Clayton Business Park Accrington Lancashire BB5 5JY T: 01254 303092 | E: user-8188d25e65e4@xymon.invalid Name & Registered Office: EXPRESS GIFTS LIMITED, 2 GREGORY ST, HYDE, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND, SK14 4TH, Company No. 00718151. Express Gifts Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority NOTE: This email and any information contained within or attached in a separate file is confidential and intended solely for the Individual to whom it is addressed. The information or data included is solely for the purpose indicated or previously agreed. Any information or data included with this e-mail remains the property of Findel PLC and the recipient will refrain from utilising the information for any purpose other than that indicated and upon request will destroy the information and remove it from their records. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Findel PLC. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. No warranties or assurances are made in relation to the safety and content of this e-mail and any attachments. No liability is accepted for any consequences arising from it. Findel Plc reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its internal and external networks. If you have received this email in error please notify our IT helpdesk on +44(0) 1254 303030
list Dewey Sasser
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On 6/14/2012 10:27 AM, Neil Simmonds wrote:
Hi all, Before I start looking at potentially re-inventing the wheel, does anyone have a BBWin external script for monitoring Disk IO and paging on a Windows server that they would be willing to share?
This doesn't directly answer your question, but for what it's worth... After fighting with Xymon metric collection/new graphs some years ago, last year I discovered Graphite (http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/). I was trying to do something relatively simple (track ping response time to my storage system) but it was somewhat annoying to get the data into Xymon and IIRC it was very annoying to deal with data for which I did not want the default RRD retention parameters to apply. I now use Xymon for monitoring and alerting, Graphite for metrics, trending and analysis. I rsync the RRD data from Xymon to Graphite (which can use it directly) to take advantage of the Xymon agent collection. I have written Xymon scripts to allow monitoring and alerting based on metric levels (https://github.com/dmsasser/graphiteutils). So, effectively my *very* external script for monitoring Disk IO is... * host sFlow collector on Windows to get stats * sFlow2Graphite.pl script (open source) * Graphite data collection and display * Xymon consuming graphite data and triggering alerts on levels. Incidentally, if you're monitoring virtual machines in Vmware you can get the data directly from ESX, which might be easier. I can share more information about configuration/setup if desired. -- Dewey
list Dewey Sasser
On 6/14/2012 10:27 AM, Neil Simmonds wrote:
Hi all, Before I start looking at potentially re-inventing the wheel, does anyone have a BBWin external script for monitoring Disk IO and paging on a Windows server that they would be willing to share?
This doesn't directly answer your question, but for what it's worth... After fighting with Xymon metric collection/new graphs some years ago, last year I discovered Graphite (http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/02/15/measure-anything-measure-everything/). I was trying to do something relatively simple (track ping response time to my storage system) but it was somewhat annoying to get the data into Xymon and IIRC it was very annoying to deal with data for which I did not want the default RRD retention parameters to apply. I now use Xymon for monitoring and alerting, Graphite for metrics, trending and analysis. I rsync the RRD data from Xymon to Graphite (which can use it directly) to take advantage of the Xymon agent collection. I have written Xymon scripts to allow monitoring and alerting based on metric levels (https://github.com/dmsasser/graphiteutils). So, effectively my *very* external script for monitoring Disk IO is... * host sFlow collector on Windows to get stats * sFlow2Graphite.pl script (open source) * Graphite data collection and display * Xymon consuming graphite data and triggering alerts on levels. Incidentally, if you're monitoring virtual machines in Vmware you can get the data directly from ESX, which might be easier. I can share more information about configuration/setup if desired. -- Dewey