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Invoke-IcingaCheckPerfCounter

Description

Performs checks on various performance counter

Invoke-IcingaCheckDirectory returns either ‘OK’, ‘WARNING’ or ‘CRITICAL’, based on the thresholds set. Use “Show-IcingaPerformanceCounterCategories” to see all performance counter categories available. To gain insight on an specific performance counter use “Show-IcingaPerformanceCounters ” e.g ‘

More Information on https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-plugins

Permissions

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

Required User Groups

  • Performance Monitor Users

Arguments

Argument Type Required Default Description
PerfCounter Array false Used to specify an array of performance counter to check against.
Warning Object false Used to specify a Warning threshold.
Critical Object false Used to specify a Critical threshold.
IncludeCounter Array false @() An [array] of strings to filter for, only including the provided counters. Allows
wildcard “*” usage
ExcludeCounter Array false @() An [array] of strings to filter for, excluding the provided counters. Allows
wildcard “*” usage
IgnoreEmptyChecks SwitchParameter false False Overrides the default behaviour of the plugin in case no check element was found and
prevent the plugin from exiting UNKNOWN and returns OK instead
NoPerfData SwitchParameter false False Set this argument to not write any performance data
Verbosity Int32 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-IcingaCheckPerfCounter -PerfCounter '\processor(*)\% processor time' -Warning 60 -Critical 90

Example Output 1

[WARNING]: Check package "Performance Counter" is [WARNING]
| 'processor1_processor_time'=68.95;60;90 'processor3_processor_time'=4.21;60;90 'processor5_processor_time'=9.5;60;90 'processor_Total_processor_time'=20.6;60;90 'processor0_processor_time'=5.57;60;90 'processor2_processor_time'=0;60;90 'processor4_processor_time'=6.66;60;90