[Nagiosplug-help] Windows NT Plugin

[Andreas Baetz]

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 09:46, Tom DE BLENDE wrote:
> Please search the archives of the netsaintplug-help list.
ok, I searched the archives, and found nothing about this specific problem

I found another question though, that I think I can answer:

If you have to monitor a service with spaces in its name,
just quote the whole sesrvicename like so:
        check_command                   check_nt_service!"service with spaces"


Andreas

>
> Andreas Baetz wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm using nsclient from http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/ to monitor our NT
> > servers. (CPU Load, Disk usage, running services). I found out that when
> > used on MP systems, it logs an error to the eventlog like this:
> > "NSClient Error: PDH.dll Collect CPU - ERROR: 0x800007D6"
> > every few seconds.
> >
> > I didn't find anything in the docs or the FAQ except that this means
> > "A counter with a negative denominator value was detected."
> > The reporting seems to be accurate, though. Therefore my questions:
> >
> > Does somebody know how to stop nsclient from reporting those errors ?
> > (I cannot compile the source here since we do not have Delphi)
> >
> > Is there another way to monitor NT servers (except from running an snmp
> > server there) ?
> >
> > regards
> > Andreas