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+# check_win
+
+COREX Windows host agentless check plugin for Icinga 2
+ 
+### Features
+ - checks Windows host over SSH
+ - prints performance data for Icinga 2 Graphite Module ( and other solutions like Graphite )
+ - available subcommands: cpu, disk-health, disk-usage, memory, network, procs, swap, user-logged-on, user-count, winfo
+ - warning/critical thresholds for each separate subcommands
+ - for more details run check_win.py --help
+
+### Usage
+
+<pre><code>
+# cd /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
+# ./check_win.py --hostname mywin.mydomain.com --sshuser john.doe --sshkey /var/lib/nagios/.ssh/idrsa.pub --subcommand cpu --warning 70 --critical 90 
+OK - CPU usage is 14.5 %. | usage=14.5%;70;90;0;100
+#
+</code></pre>
+
+<pre><code>
+# cd /usr/lib/nagios/plugins
+# ./check_win.py --hostname mywin.mydomain.com --sshuser john.doe --sshkey /var/lib/nagios/.ssh/idrsa.pub --subcommand disk-usage --warning 80 --critical 90
+WARNING - C (No label) drive usage is 82.17 % (188.94 GB / 229.95 GB).                    |C=188.94GB;183.96;206.96;0;229.95
+OK - D (backup) drive usage is 0.26 % (0.13 GB / 50.0 GB).                    |D=0.13GB;40.0;45.0;0;50.0
+#
+
+</code></pre>
+
+
+
+### Version
+
+ - 1.13
+
+### ToDo
+
+ - waiting for bugs or feature requests (-:
+
+## Changelog
+
+ - [initial release] version 1.13
+