I'd like to add custom check for winperf counters, in particular DNS counters

[cjcox (Christopher Cox)]

So, I noticed that such counters look like:

\DNS\UDP Query Received/sec

Notice the hierarchy/path in the name.

Do I configure the winperf counter using the name and double escape the backslashes? Does anyone know of a example in Checkmk today or Exchange that I could look at?

[cjcox (Christopher Cox)]

Answering my own question. I used the winperf_ts_sessions to get the actual check started… though for my check I’ll be checking an ever growing counter and graphing requests/sec. But answering the question, here is the check_mk.user.yml lines of interest:

winperf:
    enabled: yes
    counters:
        - DNS: cjc_dns

[MarSYS (Markus Badberg)]

Can you please explain step by step?

I just can’t get any further and i am totally stomped.

[cjcox (Christopher Cox)]

Probably more of a tutorial thing… I’ll put a link here to what I post in the proper category.

[cjcox (Christopher Cox)]

Writing a simple winperf counter check (Windows counter to Checkmk)

This brief video show how to get a Windows performance counter, via Checkmk’s built-in winperf handling so that you can actually see it in Checkmk. Requires creating a check. In this case, I’m pulling in the DNS\Total Requests counter and simply graphing it over time as Requests/sec. Creating a winperf check in Checkmk