They are not just for "Compaq Proliant ML530", they are for any Compaq Proliant running the Insight Manager agents. Other server vendors have similar agents that provide much better and more reliable information than the agents MS provides.
Of course, if you're running your mission-critical server on a white box from Joe's Pizza and PC Shop, such useful statistics might not be available to you. You should ask yourself why something important enough track utilization with mrtg isn't important enough to run on a "real" server. Sometimes this question has no good answer. In that case, you need to use whatever data the OS vendor provide. NetWare provides good memory utilization statistics in .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.host, as do most versions of Unix. Windows doesn't. There are basically two options. One is to use a third-party agent that exposes Windows performance counter data. See http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/default.htm for software and configuration examples. In fact, the OID that Sander is trying to use is from the agent from this site. If you don't have the agent loaded, there nothing there to graph. This is not something provided by, or supported in any way, by Microsoft. In fact, the methods and tools used to develop this agent are no longer available from Microsoft. Some people find that the data is somewhat unreliable, or that the agent causes other problems. There are other agents with similar functionality. In many organizations, it is difficult to get approval to load such non-commercial software on important systems. The other option is to use the Windows performance counter data directly in mrtg. This is detailed at http://www.wn.com.au/psimmo/, as someone else pointed out. It requires no additional agents on the systems being monitored. This is as reliable as Windows NT Performance Monitor (which isn't saying a lot). -----Original Message----- From: Sander Foppen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mrtg] Re: memory on w2k server I haven't tried them yet, but I think they are. -----Original Message----- From: Simon ter Veen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 28 januari 2003 15:57 To: Luquin, Andres; Sander Foppen Subject: RE: [mrtg] Re: memory on w2k server hi.. correct me if i am wrong but isn't this an oid for a "Compaq Proliant ML530" only??? -----Original Message----- From: Luquin, Andres [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 3:00 PM To: 'Sander Foppen'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mrtg] Re: memory on w2k server I use this on a Compaq Proliant ML530 server. I hope it will help you: # RAM mem. size and free. # MIB's: cpqHoPhysicalMemorySize and cpqHoPhysicalMemoryFree in MB .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.13.1.0 & .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.13.2.0 # SWAP mem. size and free. # MIB's: cpqHoPagingMemorySize and cpqHoPagingMemoryFree in MB .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.13.3.0 & .1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.13.4.0 Cheers............................. Andrés. -----Mensaje original----- De: Sander Foppen [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] Enviado el: martes 28 de enero de 2003 10:57 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: [mrtg] memory on w2k server I want to monitor the used and free memory on my w2k servers. At this moment I'm using Win NT OID's "1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1.7.1.0" But I don't get a value back for this OID. Does anyone know how to get the memory? Gr, Sander Foppen -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg <http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg> FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org <http://faq.mrtg.org> Homepage http://www.mrtg.org <http://www.mrtg.org> WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi <http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi> -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
