Re: [Bigsister-general] Still having problems with the disk check on win2k.

[Scott Phillips <suppressed>]

Thanks for the help on this.  For what it's worth, the
purple mark on the disk was due to "diskperf -y".
It's strange that the install program didn't run it
originally.


On Sun, 2004-08-01 at 14:54, Dean Liversidge wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:06:16 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >
> >Have you run diskperf -y? This is also run by the install program and requires a reboot.
> >
> 
> 
> >Also, the client seems to start improperly on reboot, I believe because bigsis starts before services it depends on. On some machines I need to manually restart the bigsis service after a reboot.
> 
> If the BS client runs ok when you restart the service after its
> booted, you should be abe to set if to depend on another service such
> as SNMP or event log to delay startup until those services are ready
> 
> If youve got the SC util from the resource kit this will set the
> dependency for you:
> #> sc config BigSuxmon DisplayName= "Big Sister Agent" depend= "SNMP"
> 
> or you can probably do it with a registry entry such as:
> #> REG ADD HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BigSuxmon /v
> "DependOnService" /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d "SNMP"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >Hello.
> >
> >I have three win2k servers that I'm trying to monitor.  The client isn't starting up quite right, but that's another problem.
> >
> >Currently, I run big sister from the the command line in its own DOS window.  It working fine, except that on two of the three machines, I get this error:
> >
> >no file systems monitored
> 
> Check if logical drives are visible in Performance monitor, if not you
> wont get anything, also some counters get disabled when windows gets
> too many errors from them. Check the registry keys to see if they are
> set as disabled.
> probably
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PerfDisk\Performance
> ( cant remember the exact key name, but it says disabled in it )
> 
> 
> >Yet it works on one, but not the other two.
> >The client version is .99 beta 2.
> are they identical installs?
> 
> 
> >Any ideas?  Is there a better way to do the disk check?
> 
> You could use remote SNMP disk monitoring directly from the BS server
> instead, and dont bother with the client for the disk monitor
> Just turn on SNMP on the remote system, put the community name in, and
> it will pull the disk space using SNMP from the HOST MIB hrStorage
> table
> 
> e.g.
> >HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageType.2 = OID: HOST-RESOURCES-TYPES::hrStorageFixedDisk
> >HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageDescr.2 = STRING: C:\ Label:devdc01  Serial Number 540e8df9
> >HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrStorageUsed.2 = INTEGER: 2686048
> 
> ..the same goes for network



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