This article describes how to enable monitoring of Windows terminal server sessions (RDP sessions) facilitating performance counters.
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
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:
winperf: counters: - Terminal Services: ts_sessions enabled: true
Result
After successfully following this guide, you will now discover a new service:
Server side check plugin: https://checkmk.com/de/integrations/winperf_ts_sessions
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