query

The Name field sometimes gets returned in by wmic for most queries without being specified. It seems to be OS version dependent.We recommend always specifying…

join and joinquery

Query JOINS help you join data from another WMI Class to the base query data. This provides you with a larger more rich data set…

customfield

Sometimes you need to display/warn against a field that is needs to be created from other WMI fields. A custom field is some other fields…

Creating a Ini Check based on a WMI PerfRawData Class

For data in most PerfRawData classes the data you see by browsing the classes directly can be somewhat meaningless. You actually need to calculate meaningful…

Ini File Fields

This field documentation is not yet complete. There is some field documentation in the [sample full] section of the samples.ini file that comes with the…

Overview on How to Create an Ini File Check

I’ll expand on this later. This page shows a high level overview. There is a detailed step by step example here. High Level Steps: When…

Ini File Documentation

Upgrading

These steps assume that you already have a working Check WMI Plus. Once you have downloaded the version you want to upgrade to follow these…

Installation

This is only some basic information. I’m going to assume that if you are even looking at adding plugins to Nagios that you have some…

Nagios Command Definitions

Some sample Nagios Command definitions that access the majority of the check_wmi_plus features. This is a straight cut and paste from my own Nagios configuration…