Installation Terminal Session Fedora 16 (Legacy)

This page shows a terminal session that includes:

  • Install and compile of the legacy wmic command line binary
  • wmic testing
  • Installation of check_wmi_plus
  • check_wmi_plus testing

This is all performed on a freshly installed Fedora 16 virtual machine. This is a minimal installation of Fedora that does not even include perl.
Some of the output has been collapsed because it is very large!
Some notes (not part of the original terminal session!) are in blue

Package Installation

Install some packages that we need. There is no Nagios on this machine so we have to install nagios-plugins-perl at the very least to get the Nagios utils.pm

Fed16 Min:~# yum -y install wget time make gcc autoconf nagios-plugins-perl perl-Config-IniFiles perl-DateTime perl-Scalar-List-Utils perl-Number-Format

Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies

Complete!

Downloading wmic

Download wmic

Fed16 Min:~# cd /tmp
Fed16 Min:/tmp# wget www.edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/wmi-1.3.14.tar.gz

–2012-11-18 17:23:45– https://www.edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/wmi-1.3.14.tar.gz
Resolving www.edcint.co.nz… 50.22.11.45
Connecting to www.edcint.co.nz|50.22.11.45|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 3994744 (3.8M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: “wmi-1.3.14.tar.gz”

100%[=========================================================================================>] 3,994,744 419K/s in 11s

2012-11-18 17:23:57 (366 KB/s) – “wmi-1.3.14.tar.gz” saved [3994744/3994744]

Source Extraction

Unpack wmic

Fed16 Min:/tmp# tar xzvf wmi-1.3.14.tar.gz

Compiling wmic

Compile wmic (takes about 3-4 minutes)

Fed16 Min:/tmp# cd wmi-1.3.14
Fed16 Min:/tmp/wmi-1.3.14# make

Update June 2015: You may need to use the following command line. Refer to this FAQ article.

Fed16 Min:/tmp/wmi-1.3.14# make “CPP=gcc -E -ffreestanding”

Update Nov 2015: If you get the error Can’t use ‘defined(@array)’ (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?) at ./pidl/pidl line 583.
(you are probably using Perl version 5.22+) then you need to edit line 583 of Samba/source/pidl/pidl and remove the “defined” from the start of the line (just like the error message says)

Testing wmic

Test wmic

Fed16 Min:/tmp/wmi-1.3.14#wmic

Usage: [-?|–help] [–usage] [-d|–debuglevel DEBUGLEVEL] [–debug-stderr]
[-s|–configfile CONFIGFILE] [–option=name=value]
[-l|–log-basename LOGFILEBASE] [–leak-report] [–leak-report-full]
[-R|–name-resolve NAME-RESOLVE-ORDER]
[-O|–socket-options SOCKETOPTIONS] [-n|–netbiosname NETBIOSNAME]
[-W|–workgroup WORKGROUP] [–realm=REALM] [-i|–scope SCOPE]
[-m|–maxprotocol MAXPROTOCOL] [-U|–user [DOMAIN\]USERNAME[%PASSWORD]]
[-N|–no-pass] [–password=STRING] [-A|–authentication-file FILE]
[-S|–signing on|off|required] [-P|–machine-pass]
[–simple-bind-dn=STRING] [-k|–kerberos STRING]
[–use-security-mechanisms=STRING] [-V|–version] [–namespace=STRING]
[–delimiter=STRING]
//host query

Example: wmic -U [domain/]adminuser%password //host “select * from Win32_ComputerSystem”

Fed16 Min:/tmp/wmi-1.3.14#/bin/wmic -U USER%PASS //HOST ‘Select Caption From Win32_OperatingSystem’

CLASS: Win32_OperatingSystem
Caption|Name
Microsoft Windows XP Professional|Microsoft Windows XP Professional|C:\WINDOWS|\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1

Install Check WMI Plus

Prepare for the installation of check_wmi_plus

Fed16 Min:/tmp/wmi-1.3.14#mkdir -p /opt/nagios/bin/plugins
Fed16 Min:/tmp/wmi-1.3.14#cd /opt/nagios/bin/plugins

Download check_wmi_plus

Fed16 Min:/opt/nagios/bin/plugins# wget https://edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/sites/default/files/check_wmi_plus.v1.54.tar.gz

–2012-11-18 17:45:42– https://edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/sites/default/files/check_wmi_plus.v1.54.tar.gz
Resolving edcint.co.nz… 50.22.11.45
Connecting to edcint.co.nz|50.22.11.45|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 128697 (126K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: “check_wmi_plus.v1.54.tar.gz”

100%[=========================================================================================>] 128,697 109K/s in 1.1s

2012-11-18 17:45:44 (109 KB/s) – “check_wmi_plus.v1.54.tar.gz” saved [128697/128697]

Unpack check_wmi_plus

Fed16 Min:/opt/nagios/bin/plugins# tar xzvf check_wmi_plus.v1.54.tar.gz

check_wmi_plus.pl
check_wmi_plus.README.txt
check_wmi_plus.conf.sample
check_wmi_plus.d/
check_wmi_plus.d/events.ini
check_wmi_plus.d/checkiis.ini
check_wmi_plus.d/check_wmi_plus.ini
check_wmi_plus.d/WarnCritExamples.chtml
check_wmi_plus.d/check_sql.ini
check_wmi_plus.d/README.txt
check_wmi_plus.d/check_sql_express.ini.NOTNEEDED
check_wmi_plus.d/CommandExamples.chtml
check_wmi_plus.d/samples.ini
check_wmi_plus.d/checkexchange.ini
event_generic.pl

Test Check WMI Plus

Test check_wmi_plus

Fed16 Min:/opt/nagios/bin/plugins# /opt/nagios/bin/plugins/check_wmi_plus.pl -m checkcpu -H HOST -u USER -p PASS

Collecting first WMI sample because the previous state data file (/tmp/cwpss_checkcpu_HOST___.state) contained no data. Results will be shown the next time the plugin runs.

Run it again since checkcpu requires 2 data points

Fed16 Min:/opt/nagios/bin/plugins# /opt/nagios/bin/plugins/check_wmi_plus.pl -m checkcpu -H HOST -u USER -p PASS

OK (Sample Period 4 sec) – Average CPU Utilisation 10.24%|’Avg CPU Utilisation’=10.24%;
sation’=10.24%;

Created in 2012