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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi there,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope all is well on your end. I have a question regarding usage of the check_nt plugin. Maybe you have some insight on what is happening and why I can get my expected result.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Use Case:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I want to be able to check the current bandwidth of my networking adapter on a windows 2012 server. The Network adapter is a NIC team. It is two 10Gbps NICs. Essentially I want to alert if one of the two NICs has failed.. Essentially the
current bandwidth would be 10Gbps (1 failed) Vs 20Gbps when both are working. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I checked with windows performance monitor and the NIC is called:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor Driver”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is the nagios check I am using:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">check_nt!COUNTER!-l "\\Network Adapter(Microsoft Network Adapter Multiplexor Driver)\\Current Bandwidth" -w 20000000000: -c 20000000000:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Per google, if there is a col. to the right of a number, I should see an alert if result drops below value.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In above example I am expecting a warning and a critical alert to be generated if the current bandwidth falls below 20Gbps.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When testing. My output shows “20000000000” when both NICs are active. When I disbable one, I get “10000000000”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From my testing, it seems that the check_nt plugin, does not support a “:” (colon) parameter. I cannot get it to alert when only one nic is active.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can you please confirm this is the case? I might be doing something wrong.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you in advance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Andrew Grabowski<o:p></o:p></p>
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