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Konstantin Petrukhnov
Asked: 2011-01-06 07:04:53 +0800 CST

how to get CPU utilization in zabbix from Windows server?

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I'm trying to monitor CPU utilization of windows 7 32bit PC (C2D E8400) using zabbix. I tried both "perf_counter[\Processor Information(_Total)\% Processor Time]" and "system.cpu.util[,system,avg5]". After some time status of these items reverted itself to "Unsupported".

Is this problem on agent side, or at server? How to fix it? Ideally I want to see percentages load per each core.

UPD: topic and description updated.

UPD2: these counters work, but their value are float, and not decimal as I thought.

windows zabbix zabbix-agent

2 Answers

  1. I just added the items and triggers for:

     system.cpu.util[,,avg1]

 system.cpu.util[,,avg5]

 system.cpu.util[,,avg15]

    It is working in Zabbix Agent 2.0.4 and Windows 2008. Because have differences between CPU Load and CPU Utilization.

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  2. Best Answer

    CPU load (what you have) is not the same as CPU utilization (what you're trying to get). Load is a measurement of the average number of processes waiting on the processor(s), whilst utilization is the amount of time the processor was doing work during a given time snapshot. You probably want to look at the counter:

    perf_counter[\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time]

    It's been a while since I've used zabbix, so syntax might have changed.

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