check_cpu_utilization.ps1.py

Nagios Windows_SSH Monitoring Plugin

DESCRIPTION

• This plugin monitors the CPU utilization on Windows machines via evaluation of the Process Performce Counters.

  • \Processor(_Total)% User Time
  • \Processor(_Total)% Processor Time
  • \Processor(_Total)% Privileged Time

• This plugin gives you the CPU Utilization for the system, across all cores.

• Threshold violations result when a metric value is "equal to or greater than" the thresholds provided.

  • E.g. -warning 10 will need the number of files to be equal to 10 or higher to throw a WARNING.

SYNOPSIS

• A PowerShell based plugin to check CPU Utilization via Windows Processor Performance Counters

NOTES:

• This plugin will return performance data.

POWERSHELL PARAMETERS

metric

• The Processor Metric you would like to evaluate.
  • User = Percent User Time (Default)
  • Proc = Percent Processor Time
  • Priv = Percent Privileged Time

warning

• The CPU utilization you will tolerate before throwing a WARNING

critical

• The CPU utilization you will tolerate before throwing a CRITICAL

EMBEDED POWERSHELL EXAMPLES

• PS> .\check_cpu_utilization.ps1
• PS> .\check_cpu_utilization.ps1 -metric Proc -warning 80 -critical 90
• PS> .\check_cpu_utilization.ps1 -metric User -warning 80 -critical 90
• PS> .\check_cpu_utilization.ps1 -metric Priv -warning 80 -critical 90