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  • SharkCZ
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    • Apr 2006
    • 39

    #1

    performance counters from non-english Windows systems

    The current system for getting the values from performance counters has one limitation - the name of the counter for an item must be stored as the native name on the target machine. When you have a mix of localized and english Windows system, then you must have more templates for Windows machines. The solution is described in an article from MS KB http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q287159/. The implementation can look as:
    - the agent during its startup reads the english names as they exists even on non-english systems
    - creates a translation table english_name => index_of_counter
    - and when a value is requested then it finds the index for english name and asks Windows directly with that index.

    See http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7455 for a real case, where such solution would be useful.
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