[Xymon] Windows disk I/O stats

[Andy Smith]

zak.beck at accenture.com wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I haven't tackled your exact problem but if you upgraded to the latest client 
> (2.15) you would gain the capability to execute and collect data from external 
> scripts.
> 
> You could then write a Powershell script to collect the data from performance 
> counters (perfmon). This should not be expensive as the OS is already 
> collecting this data, you're just reading it.
> 
> You can use Perfmon to determine which counters you need to collect, then 
> Get-Counter in Powershell to read the counters.
> 
> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee872428.aspx
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21086389/how-to-select-a-performance-counter-with-get-counter-with-in-name
> 
> 
> Zak
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Andy Smith
> Sent: 09 June 2016 11:55
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [Xymon] Windows disk I/O stats
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been asked to provide disk I/O stats for a windows server, this 
> currently has xymonclient.ps1 2.04 and the server OS is 2008 R2 SP1.
> 
> I have provided similar in linux end-points using for instance diskstat.pl 
> from Xymonton, but nothing similar seems to exist for Windows.  I presume 
> powershell could find this stuff but how expensive would it be to extract 
> this?  I dont want the agent to be affecting what we are supposed to be 
> measuring.  Has anyone else already been down this path or can they provide me 
> an tips please?
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Andy

Thanks for the reply, I had a look at those links and I think I can 
probably put something together.  At the end of the day, disk I/O is 
going to be 'just a number' and I am not sure what they are expecting to 
do with it, it might be a symptom of application mal-performance but 
it's not going to be the cause so I suppose it will tell them when they 
have fixed the problem.
-- 
Andy