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| This article describes how to enable monitoring of Windows terminal server sessions (RDP sessions), facilitating performance counters. |
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Step-by-step guide
Using the agent bakery (preferred)
Enable transfer of performance counters through the Windows agent, as seen in the screenshot:
Setup → Agents → Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX → Agent rules → Windows Performance-Counter objects → Add rule
After you have created the needed rule, don't forget to bake a new agent and to install it on the
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Windows host. Without this, the agent rule you have configured will not work.
Manually by changing the check_mk.user.yml file
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Do not do this if you followed the Agent Bakery section above! |
Enable transfer of performance counters through the Windows agent by adding the following configuration snippet to your check_mk.user.
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yml:
Go to C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\check_mk.user.yml and activate the counter section by uncommenting the following section:
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winperf: counters: - Terminal Services: ts_sessions enabled: true |
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Output inside the Windows agent
After you have done the configuration, a section similar to this will be added to the agent output (this might be useful for troubleshooting):
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<<<winperf_ts_sessions>>>
1728393192.07 6324 10000000
2 1 rawcount
4 1 rawcount
6 2 rawcount |
Optional, you can change the default behavior by using one of the below rules
Example of rule configuration:
Setup > Services > Service monitoring rules > Windows Terminal Server Sessions > Add rule: Windows Terminal Server Sessions
The result
After successfully following this guide, you will now discover a new service:
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