[Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client

Mon Feb 23 09:59:19 CET 2015

Adding the label stuff to the todo list.

Nothing bad should happen (other than display glitches) if the value
overflows the 9 length - it's just used for alignment. I can have a look at
this when I do the mountpoint and label stuff.

Thanks

Zak 

From: Gavin Stone-Tolcher [mailto:g.stone-tolcher at its.uq.edu.au] 
Sent: 23 February 2015 01:01
To: Beck, Zak; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: Xymon Powershell Windows client

Just a comment, the field widths for the display of 1K blocks for the "disk"
output should probably be increased from "9" to "10" or "11" to allow for
terabyte class devices?

Also the old BB client used to display the volume name enclosed in "()"
after the "Mounted" field.

e.g.

Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted

C             142632960 43665264 98967696    30%    /FIXED/C ()

D             142734336 56339072 86395264    39%    /FIXED/D (DATA)

F             314572800  6421984 308150816     2%    /FIXED/F (AUDIT)

G             314572800 264085248 50487548    83%    /FIXED/G (SHARED)

I             629145600 608879424 20266156    96%    /FIXED/I (PROJECTS1)

J             629145600 234245312 394900288    37%    /FIXED/J (PROJECTS2)

K             629145600 267088320 362057280    42%    /FIXED/K (USERS)

Some of the Windows guys at my site would like to see that info in the
powershell client test output.

I wonder if a new field "Label" or "Volume" column could be added between
the "Mounted" and "Summary" fields with that information.

The "VolumeName" field from Win32_LogicalDisk class could be used for the
data?

I have added it locally and it does not seem to effect RRD collection or
graphing for the test.

This is what I currently have being generated using a locally modified
version of the client. 

Filesystem       1K-blocks       Used      Avail  Capacity
Mounted      Label      Summary(Total\Avail GB)

C                104753148   42324428   62428720       40%
/FIXED/C        (SYSTEM) 99.90\59.54

I am using the "Label" field from Win32_Volume class for the data in this
particular case.

Cheers,

Gavin Stone-Tolcher, IT Support Officer, Network Operations and Incident
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From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of
zak.beck at accenture.com <mailto:zak.beck at accenture.com> 
Sent: Friday, 13 February 2015 7:53 PM
To: xymon-developer at lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: [Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client

Hi all,

Today I have uploaded a new version of the Xymon Powershell client to SVN
(in sandbox/WinPSClient). We (Accenture) are very pleased to be contributing
these changes to the open source community. I've been working on this now
for around 8 months on and off and hopefully the changes made will be of
benefit to everyone!

Whilst making changes, we have focussed mainly on making it work, improving
reliability and most importantly improving performance.

In most cases, on our 64 bit OS virtual machines, a data collection now
takes around 5 seconds. On heavily loaded (CPU load or event log load)
servers, the script is now considerably faster than originally. Key to this
has been reducing the amount of WMI usage as this was a major culprit. 

We have also implemented some new features, largely based on our in-house
requirements but hopefully useful to others:

*         Showing the process owner and command line in [procs]. This has
been implemented using c# code, compiled at runtime.

*         Adding Active Directory replication test, Terminal Services
sessions test

*         Ability to restart any stopped Windows service

*         Client self-update

*         Dirsize and dirtime checks (which were originally external
scripts)

Some things have changed slightly; for example, the local configuration
which was registry-based is now XML-based (you can still use registry
settings if you prefer).  In the SVN repository I have also uploaded a Word
document which describes how to install and the configuration options.

I have uploaded all the revisions we have made to SVN so there is a history
of development. Whilst we will endeavour to continue contributing changes
and improvements in coming months, this is an open source project and as
such we are not offering any formal support. If anyone wishes to bugfix,
branch or whatever, please do so!

Zak Beck
Accenture

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