Using Zabbix for SNMP monitoring disk usage percent for Windows hosts

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:44:22 +0000

A few years ago we moved from Nagios to Zabbix for our server monitoring needs. I wasn’t a big fan of Nagios, finding it a pain to manage with its myriad configuration files. It’s probably gotten better since I last toyed with it but since we moved to Zabbix I haven’t had much reason to look at Nagios again.

I also try to use SNMP monitoring for everything. SNMP is widely supported - all sorts of hardware has SNMP support, and with the net-snmp package you can pretty easily create your own SNMP-monitorable stuff on Linux. Since almost all of our stuff runs on Linux this has worked out pretty well, but our Exchange server is probably going to be running on Windows for the foreseeable future. Windows has SNMP support, it’s just not on by default. However, even when it’s enabled it doesn’t have the simple “dskPercent” monitoring I’ve come to know and love with net-snmp on Linux, which simply tells you how full a given disk is as a percent. This makes it easy to set alerts when a disk reaches 80% full.

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Using Zabbix for SNMP monitoring disk usage percent for Windows hosts