On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Tal Cohen wrote:
Yeah, I thought of that. I was hoping for a platform independent mechanism. If not, then I can use this type of methodology, but how do I account for Windows based machines?
Set up SNMP on each client and write generic, cross-platform scripts that can make SNMP queries to find out such things (or better still, install a package like Mon or MRTG that does such things for you).
O'Reilly's _Perl for System Administration_ gives a quick overview of such things; chapter 10 & appendix E have the material you need here. The _Essential SNMP_ book gets into much more detail, and has chapters on MRTG setup & use and using Perl to script SNMP work.
Setting up an SNMP architecture may be more overhead than you have in mind, but once you have it in place, monitoring all kinds of things, for all kinds of devices (computers with about any operating system, as well as things like printers, network hardware, etc) gets really easy.
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