[Xymon] netstat column and netstat.rrd with german windows

[Körfer, Thomas]

Of Course, here is an example of an working english windows netstat page:


2014-Jan-29 08:34:01 [ALBUQUERQUE]
win32

ipPacketsReceived=65817490
ipReceivedHeaderErrors=1835
ipReceivedAddressErrors=9547541
ipDatagramsForwarded=0
ipUnknownProtocolsReceived=0
ipReceivedPacketsDiscarded=319190
ipReceivedPacketsDelivered=55957246
ipOutputRequests=28346844
ipRoutingDiscards=0
ipDiscardedOutputPackets=7532
ipOutputPacketNoRoute=0
ipReassemblyRequired=0
ipReassemblySuccessful=0
ipReassemblyFailures=0
ipDatagramsSuccessfullyFragmented=0
ipDatagramsFailingFragmentation=0
ipFragmentsCreated=0

ipv6PacketsReceived=5965227
ipv6ReceivedHeaderErrors=0
ipv6ReceivedAddressErrors=0
ipv6DatagramsForwarded=0
ipv6UnknownProtocolsReceived=0
ipv6ReceivedPacketsDiscarded=249
ipv6ReceivedPacketsDelivered=5965226
ipv6OutputRequests=74141187
ipv6RoutingDiscards=0
ipv6DiscardedOutputPackets=4
ipv6OutputPacketNoRoute=2
ipv6ReassemblyRequired=0
ipv6ReassemblySuccessful=0
ipv6ReassemblyFailures=0
ipv6DatagramsSuccessfullyFragmented=0
ipv6DatagramsFailingFragmentation=0
ipv6FragmentsCreated=0

tcpActiveOpens=81899
tcpPassiveOpens=49180
tcpFailedConnectionAttempts=1260
tcpResetConnections=2886
tcpCurrentConnections=27
tcpSegmentsReceived=55058680
tcpSegmentsSent=35587178
tcpSegmentsRetransmitted=532258

tcpv6ActiveOpens=48
tcpv6PassiveOpens=79
tcpv6FailedConnectionAttempts=0
tcpv6ResetConnections=61
tcpv6CurrentConnections=0
tcpv6SegmentsReceived=5784810
tcpv6SegmentsSent=74123719
tcpv6SegmentsRetransmitted=110

udpDatagramsReceived=890509
udpNoPorts=317287
udpReceiveErrors=358
udpDatagramsSent=107044

udpv6DatagramsReceived=181456
udpv6NoPorts=243
udpv6ReceiveErrors=7
udpv6DatagramsSent=18799



And here is an example of a failing german windows netstat page:


2014-Jan-29 08:35:25 [GANGNAM]

win32

EmpfangenePakete=51670686

EmpfangeneVorspannfehler=181

EmpfangeneAdressfehler=9724227

WeitergeleiteteDatagramme=0

EmpfangeneunbekannteProtokolle=0

EmpfangeneverworfenePakete=323091

EmpfangenebermitteltePakete=41627068

Ausgabeanforderungen=7232984

VerworfeneRoutingpakete=0

VerworfeneAusgabepakete=27

AusgabepaketeohneRouting=0

Reassemblierungerforderlich=0

Reassemblierungerfolgreich=0

Reassemblierungerfolglos=0

ErfolgreicheDatagrammfragmentierung=0

ErfolgloseDatagrammfragmentierung=0

ErzeugteFragmente=0

EmpfangenePakete=186529

EmpfangeneVorspannfehler=0

EmpfangeneAdressfehler=0

WeitergeleiteteDatagramme=0

EmpfangeneunbekannteProtokolle=0

EmpfangeneverworfenePakete=125

EmpfangenebermitteltePakete=187004

Ausgabeanforderungen=23684

VerworfeneRoutingpakete=0

VerworfeneAusgabepakete=2

AusgabepaketeohneRouting=2

Reassemblierungerforderlich=0

Reassemblierungerfolgreich=0

Reassemblierungerfolglos=0

ErfolgreicheDatagrammfragmentierung=0

ErfolgloseDatagrammfragmentierung=0

ErzeugteFragmente=0

Aktivge"ffnet=3713

Passivge"ffnet=47

ErfolgloseVerbindungsversuche=17

ZurckgesetzteVerbindungen=635

AktuelleVerbindungen=5

EmpfangeneSegmente=40802713

GesendeteSegmente=7320026

ErneutbertrageneSegmente=16999

Aktivge"ffnet=230

Passivge"ffnet=348

ErfolgloseVerbindungsversuche=0

ZurckgesetzteVerbindungen=2

AktuelleVerbindungen=0

EmpfangeneSegmente=8823

GesendeteSegmente=8467

ErneutbertrageneSegmente=0

EmpfangeneDatagramme=819860

KeineAnschlsse=323089

Empfangsfehler=3

GesendeteDatagramme=4924

EmpfangeneDatagramme=184690

KeineAnschlsse=125

Empfangsfehler=2

GesendeteDatagramme=19489


b.r.
T.K.


Von: Jeremy Laidman [mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014 07:31
An: Körfer, Thomas
Cc: xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
Betreff: Re: [Xymon] netstat column and netstat.rrd with german windows

On 29 January 2014 02:55, Körfer, Thomas <t.koerfer at gevasys.de<mailto:t.koerfer at gevasys.de>> wrote:
I think the test expects the english words for the counters.
Is it possible to add multi language support?

Can you show examples of the [netstat] section from both English and German windows?

The code specifically looks for strings like "udpReceiveErrors" and "tcpActiveOpens".  If the client data doesn't show these, then it's not going to work.  The strings are hard-coded in xymond/rrd/do_netstat.c in a struct variable called "netstat_win32_markers".

I would think that it's a big job to make Xymon multi-lingual with regards to input from clients.  There are several places where Xymon expects certain strings in client data (not just for netstat), and for each one, there would need to be a block of strings for an array (literally) of languages.  To support this, the data structures would need to be redefined.

I suspect that many UNIX systems present netstat output in English, and that's what Xymon expects.  I think work-arounds for language-dependent strings on the client are probably best addressed on the client.  To do so probably means that the client must change the way it collects the data, so that instead of simply using the strings provided by the "netstat -s" output, it might need to get the data by the row number.

Another option might be to tweak the client's Windows installation, so that the German language file cannot be found (perhaps temporarily) for the netstat command, so that it falls back to EN-US.  To do so, I think you can just rename (or change permissions on) %SYSTEMROOT%\System32\de-de\netstat.exe.mui.

It might be that if %SYSTEMROOT% is changed to something else, during the execution of the netstat command (eg in a batch file), then netstat will run correctly, but not find the .mui language file, and similarly fall-back to EN-US.

Cheers
Jeremy

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