Scott and William,,
I agree, snmp on NT is a pain. Often many values are empty, or tables are incomplete. The snmp service also crashes often enough I have to use a batch loop to keep it running. Many services can be tested in other ways, though. You can directly connect to mail servers via shell or expect, scan for listening ports to determine applications that are alive, and use the samba suite to test file and print services. Performance data is hit-or-miss, you can get it using snmp on some boxes and not others. Check out this site for more about snmp on NT if you do decide to use it: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Rampart/9209/
Brian Fender
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A caveat: we've had horrible experience with the Microsoft perfmib and snmp
service. Some problems we've encountered:
-- If an interface on a card changes to a down state, the instance
variable simply disappears.
-- CPU, memory, disk space: the values never get refreshed after the
first snmp query. Microsoft recommends stopping and starting the snmp
service every five minutes as a programmed task in order to force a refresh.
In short, forget the Microsoft snmp service. You'll be much happier
installing an snmp service from either the machine vendor (Compaq and Dell
both have snmp services), or some third-party software, such as Net-SNMP for
Windows.
Or, just reformat the hard drive and install Linux.
Scott Prater
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> De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En
> nombre de Jim Trocki
> Enviado el: viernes, 01 de noviembre de 2002 16:05
> Para: William Bartholomew
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asunto: Re: SNMP
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>
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, William Bartholomew wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me step by step or point me to documentation that tells
> > me what I need to do to set up a linux box that is already running mon
> > to use SNMP to monitor a Windows server.
>
> you didn't say what you want to monitor. to me "monitor a windows server"
> means to decimate a windows server by smashing a 19" viewsonic into it :)
>
> you can use the windows perfmib and snmpvar.monitor to watch things like
> virtual memory, disk performance, etc. hp has their own agent and mibs
> for proliant systems which gives you different details about things like
> whether or not the fans in the chassis are working, status of psus, etc.
> so, it depends on what you want to
>
> snmpvar.monitor comes with a readme which tells you how to get started:
>
> http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/contrib/monitors/snmpvar/
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