[Xymon] rrd network graphs on windows check

[B-Art Gillis]

Jeremy,

I changed my script using your advices.
It looks like this now:

::# Define the temp variable 'hostname'
@For /f "tokens=1" %%* in (
    'hostname'
    ) Do @Set "hostname=%%*"

::# Define the temp variables 'Inbound and Outbound'
@for /f "tokens=2" %%* in (
    'netstat.exe -e ^| findstr /i "Bytes"'
    ) do  @set "Inbound=%%*"
@for /f "tokens=3" %%* in (
    'netstat.exe -e ^| findstr /i "Bytes"'
    ) do  @set "Outbound=%%*"

::# Redirect output to a textfile
@> "scripts\netstat" (
rem @echo green %Date% %time%
  @echo client %hostname%.win32
  @echo [netstat]
  @echo %hostname% %Inbound% %Outbound%
  )


This .bat script is creating the output: (My servers name is ghostwus)

client ghostwus.win32
[netstat]
ghostwus 65057048 3838258240

And indeed the message "reports netstat for an unknown OS" is gone and I
got some client data:

[collector:netstat]
status ghostwus.netstat client Tue Jun 25 23:17:17 CEST 2013
[netstat]
ghostwus 65874964 3838527680


 <font color=DarkSlateBlue >Xy-checkwin-2.0.1</font>

But still no graph... :-(

I changed the message output to

client ghostwus.win32
[ifstat]
ghostwus 65057048 3838258240

without any success.


On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:

> On 25 June 2013 07:03, B-Art Gillis <bacaselo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your answer but I just saw on the graph that the values are
>> converted to rrd data seem to come from the "do_netstat.c" module.
>
>
> No, if you want interface statistics then you want ifstat parsed in
> do_ifstat.c.  If you want protocol statistics (layer 3 and above such as
> TCP and UDP) then you would want a [netstat] section parsed in
> do_netstat.c.  The message example you gave shows interface statistics.
>
> Xymon expects the format to match ifstat_bbwin_exprs[] (defined in
> do_ifstat.c). This includes an IP address then the in and out byte count.
>  The output of "netstat -e" does not provide an IP address, and it provides
> much more than just the bytes in and out.  You'd have to select the Bytes
> line and prefix it with an IP address (probably a dummy device name would
> do also).
>
> Something like:
>
> EthDev 144681781 42531845
>
> Any whitespace can be used as separators (one or more tabs or spaces).
>
> You could probably get away with this:
>
> echo [netstat] & netstat -e | find "Bytes"
>
> This would give "Bytes" as a devicename, but I don't think it would break
> anything.
>
> You need to prefix this message with the correct "client" message header.
>  If you're sending other client data, this should be included with that
> message, otherwise one will mask the other.
>
> The client message might look something like this:
>
> client server1.win32
> [netstat]
> Bytes      144681781        42531845
>
> To get Xymon to match against the bbwin match string, you have to report
> your OS in the message as "bbwin" or "win32".  This is probably why you're
> getting the "reports netstat for an unknown OS" message.
>
> J
>
>
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