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This article describes how to enable monitoring of Windows terminal server sessions (RDP sessions), facilitating performance counters.

LAST TESTED ON CHECKMK 2.2.0P1

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Step-by-step guide

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 → Edit rule: Windows Performance-Counter objects

Screenshot of adding a new rule for windows performance counter objects. Section name is ts_sessions. Counter object name or number is Terminal Services.

Manually changing check_mk.user.yml

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.yml.


Go to C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\check_mk.user.yml and activate the counter section by uncommenting the following section:

C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\check_mk.user.yml 
winperf:
  counters:
  - Terminal Services: ts_sessions
  enabled: true

Result

After successfully following this guide, you will now discover a new service:

Screenshot of a Sessions services. Displaying as an OK state.


Server side check plugin: https://checkmk.com/de/integrations/winperf_ts_sessions 

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