Windows CPU Performance counter

[rajan.s.ravi]

Hi,

I am trying to monitor windows cpu performance counter as below (in zabbix_agentd.conf) -

PerfCounter = procutil,"\Processor(_Total)\%Processor Time",5

This comes as unsupported. What can be the issue ?

TIA,

Regards,
Ravi

[daveres]

If you are using a non-english OS, you have to review this item. For example, in Spanish:

PerfCounter = procutil,"\Procesador(_Total)\% de tiempo de procesador",5

[MikeW]

Windows CPU Performance counter

PerfCounter = procutil,"\Processor(_Total)\%Processor Time",5

You are missing the space between the % sign and Processor.

--MikeW

[eran]

Actually there is no reason to use a performance counter for this.
You can use the built-in system.cpu.util[] key to read the CPU utilization (the type is float).

One important thing to note (I had to look in the code to find this out), is that system.cpu.load[] is not the CPU utilization at all. In windows it is equal to the "\System\Processor Queue Length" performance counter.

Hope this helps.

Eran

[eran]

Actually there is no reason to use a performance counter for this.
You can use the built-in system.cpu.util[] key to read the CPU utilization (the type is float).

One important thing to note (I had to look in the code to find this out), is that system.cpu.load[] is not the CPU utilization at all. In windows it is equal to the "\System\Processor Queue Length" performance counter.

Hope this helps.

Eran

[rajan.s.ravi]

Thanks for the reply, i am using this now and it works fine

Ravi