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Invoke-IcingaCheckHyperVOverCommitment

Description

Calculates CPU, RAM and Storage overcommitment of a Hyper-V Server

Invoke-IcingaCheckHyperVOverCommitment determines the load of a Hyper-V server, which is consumed by all running virtual machines. With the IncludeVms and ExcludeVms parameters you can exclude or include any VMs you want, depending on your needs. Here is an important thing to note, all PerfCounter values are only the overcommitment values, i.e. from these values the 100% has already been subtracted, e.g. if the CPU overcommitment is 50% in the plugin output, then with the subtracted value the overcommit would be 150% percent. In this case we would have 50% overcommit over the maximum value that the Hyper-V server can normally provide.

Permissions

To execute this plugin you will require to grant the following user permissions.

WMI Permissions

  • Root\Virtualization\v2
  • Root\Cimv2

Performance Counter

  • Processor(*)\% processor time

Required User Groups

  • Performance Monitor Users
  • Hyper-V Administrator

Arguments

Argument Type Required Default Description
IncludeVms Array false @() Include only virtual machines with a specific name. Supports wildcard usage (*)
ExcludeVms Array false @() Exclude virtual machines with a specific name. Supports wildcard usage (*)
ActiveVms SwitchParameter false False Include only virtual machines that are currently running
CPUCoreOCWarn Object false Warning threshold for Hyper-V CPU Cores overcommitment.
CPUCoreOCCrit Object false Critical threshold for Hyper-V CPU Cores overcommitment.
CPUOCPercentWarn Object false Warning threshold for Hyper-V average CPU overcommitment.
CPUOCPercentCrit Object false Critical threshold for Hyper-V average CPU overcommitment.
RAMOCByteWarn Object false Used to specify a WARNING threshold for the Hyper-V RAM overcommitment in Byte.
RAMOCByteCrit Object false Used to specify a CRITICAL threshold for the Hyper-V RAM overcommitment in Byte.
RAMOCPercentWarn Object false Used to specify a WARNING threshold for the Hyper-V average RAM overcommitment.
RAMOCPercentCrit Object false Used to specify a CRITICAL threshold for the Hyper-V average RAM overcommitment.
StorageOCByteWarn Object false Used to specify a WARNING threshold for the Hyper-V Storage overcommitment in Byte.
StorageOCByteCrit Object false Used to specify a CRITICAL threshold for the Hyper-V Storage overcommitment in Byte.
StorageOCPercentWarn Object false Used to specify a WARNING threshold for the Hyper-V average Storage overcommitment.
StorageOCPercentCrit Object false Used to specify a CRITICAL threshold for the Hyper-V average Storage overcommitment.
NoPerfData SwitchParameter false False Disables the performance data output of this plugin. Default to FALSE.
Verbosity Object false 0 Changes the behavior of the plugin output which check states are printed: 0 (default): Only service checks/packages with state not OK will be printed 1: Only services with not OK will be printed including OK checks of affected check packages including Package config 2: Everything will be printed regardless of the check state 3: Identical to Verbose 2, but prints in addition the check package configuration e.g (All must be [OK])
ThresholdInterval String Change the value your defined threshold checks against from the current value to a collected time threshold of the Icinga for Windows daemon, as described here. An example for this argument would be 1m or 15m which will use the average of 1m or 15m for monitoring.

Examples

Example Command 1

Invoke-IcingaCheckHyperVOverCommitment -Verbosity 2

Example Output 1

[OK] Check package "Hyper-V Overcommitment" (Match All)
\_ [OK] Check package "CPUOverCommit" (Match All)
    \_ [OK] hyper-v-01 Used Cores: 46c
    \_ [OK] hyper-v-01 Used Percent: 91.67%
\_ [OK] Check package "RAMOverCommit" (Match All)
    \_ [OK] hyper-v-01 Used Bytes: 45056B
    \_ [OK] hyper-v-01 Used Percent: 0%
\_ [OK] Check package "StorageOverCommit" (Match All)
    \_ [OK] Check package "Partition C: Overcommitment" (Match All)
        \_ [OK] C: Used Bytes: 140486311936B
        \_ [OK] C: Used Percent: 0%
\_ [OK] Check package "Partition I: Overcommitment" (Match All)
        \_ [OK] I: Used Bytes: 9979156899840B
        \_ [OK] I: Used Percent: 353.8%
| 'hyperv01_used_cores'=46c;;;0;24 'hyperv01_used_percent'=91.67%;;;0;100 'hyperv01_used_bytes'=45056B;;;0;60100288512 'hyperv01_used_percent'=0%;;;0;100 'i_used_bytes'=9979156899840B;;;0;2199021158400 'i_used_percent'=353.8%;;;0;100 'c_used_percent'=0%;;;0;100 'c_used_bytes'=140486311936B;;;0;478964350976
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