Windows Zabbix Agent does not start

[berazumis]

Hi,
I have strange problem: Windows zabbix agent does not start on one of my servers (win2003). Config file is OK. It works on another servers. Here is what i see in the log:

[23-May-2007 14:46:35] Unable to add performance counter "\(_Total)\" to query: The specified object is not found on the system.

I have searched this forum for similar problems. All i could find is to enable performance counters on perfos.dll, but it is enabled on my server.

Any ideas?

[dratliff]

Windows Agent Monitoring

Hey Bera,

I have had some fun putting performance counters in the conf file. I finally got done with just experimenting and now we are starting to do some real-world monitoring. Enclosed are some of the counters I am tracking. The "\(_Total)\" isn't going to monitor anything that I know of. Here is some of the data I am collecting:

PerfCounter = srv_pf_total,"\Process(_Total)\Page Faults/sec",30
PerfCounter = srv_virt_total,"\Process(_Total)\Virtual Bytes",30
PerfCounter = srv_proc_total,"\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time",30

The quickest and easiest way to get these keys out is:

1. Create a new performance counter
2. Select a comma-delimited log file.
3. After log file is created, just open it in notepad, copy the top line into another text file and cut-n-paste the keys into the zabbix_agentd.conf with the appropriate syntax.
4. Start and stop the agent.

If you create an item and it keeps saying unsupported, it might be unsupported or the syntax of the key is wrong. Keep checking the log file of the agent to make sure the user parameters are being accepted.


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