I've found monitoring NT over SNMP to be extremely unreliable, but it's possible. This is what I did for NT4.0, it may be different for win2k:
Check out this 'http://www.techie.net.nz/networking/mrtg/' site (which has changed drastically since I last used it). Basically, you need to install the perf SNMP extension on each monitored host, either get find it online on the NT resource kit cd. If it is already included in win2k this will be much easier. Then find a copy of mbrowse for linux, I think it is on sourceforge.net. Install the windows perf extension MIB on your linux box and fire up mbrowse. Browse for the values you are interested in. There's probably a canned SNMP monitor for mon, but I am testing with a shell script that uses the ucd-snmp's 'snmpget' and 'snmpwalk'.
All of these can be obtained free online, though the perf SNMP extension is Microsoft property and may have a license.
Brian Fender
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I'm trying to setup Mon to monitor NT services running on Windows 2000 boxes. Unfortunately, I have little experience with Mon or with network management/monitoring. Has anyone found a way to monitor NT services reliably? I've considered using SNMP; however, I haven't found any way to use SNMP to check the status of a running service. I've considered using SNMP traps; however, this doesn't seem terribly reliable since the UDP packet could never make it to the server running Mon. Using traps tells me something bad happened but it doesn't give me the sense of security that actually checking the services periodically would give me.
Has anyone else in the Mon community found a way to solve this problem? If possible I'd like to implement something that doesn't require installing software (particularly commercial software) on all of my NT boxes. Any suggestions, experiences, best practices, things to avoid, etc. would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason Winters
