[Nagiosplug-help] Windows 2000 SNMP Disk Usage Monitoring

Russell Adams RLAdams at Kelsey-Seybold.com
Mon Nov 11 10:47:14 CET 2002


As I recall, there was a patch for this that got rolled into a later
service pack (SP3?). A little Googling should set you right.

Here's the bug:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;295587&

And a discussion:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=urdnh2hhk54pe2%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dwindows%2B2000%2Bsnmp%2Bdisk%2Bupdate%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26selm%3Durdnh2hhk54pe2%2540corp.supernews.com%26rnum%3D2

Russell

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 10:46:03AM -0600, Jeff Rendl wrote:
> Ok, anyone monitoring Windows 2000 Disk Usage with check_snmp?  I
> successfully get the size of the disk (as a number of 4096K clusters),
> and have the appropriate thresholds set.  That all works fine.
>  
> The problem is that the size of the utilization that 2K returns doesn't
> change unless you restart the 2K server.  WTF?  What's the point of
> knowing the size of the disk only at startup?  I most likely already
> know that if I watched it boot. Grr.
>  
> So, any workarounds or way to increase the polling 2K does?  I would
> prefer to check this via SNMP rather than some app running on the
> server.
>  
> Thanks!





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