>is there a way around this? Don't use Windows? Seriously, Microsoft's snmp support has always been spotty, buggy, and in violation of several key parts of the standards.
The ways around it are: 1. Use the hardware manufacturers' agents, if available. Compaq, HP, IBM, Dell, and perhaps others all provide snmp agents for hardware monitoring that are much better, more thorough, and more reliable than anything from Microsoft. 2. Use perfmon stats. These are more reliable than the snmp stats from the MS agent. There are several ways of using these in mrtg. See http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/default.htm for one method, which uses a custom built snmp agent extension to expose perfmon stats. See http://www.wn.com.au/psimmo/ for a (better, IMO) method that requires no additional agents on the boxes being monitored, and uses an external perl script to feed the numbers back to mrtg. 3. Use WMI stats. Usually uses vbscript/cscript on the mrtg host to access stats from remote server. Probably the most complex, but most reliable. This is the way MS would recommend doing it, if you could get them to support the use of a GPL performance monitoring solution (they'd love to sell you MOM...). Don't have a link handy that describes exactly how to do this under mrtg, perhaps someone else can supply one. MS has a tool called "Scriptomatic" that writes vbscript to retrieve WMI counters. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/wmimatic.asp Jerry -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Falor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mrtg] SNMP OID'S Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable when I first saw this I thought I was nuts so I ignored it and moved on, but now its beginning to annoy the life out of me. Baldness is rapidly approaching. =20 I am measuring CPU usage on several W2K servers. I use the following tree 1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.3.1.2.** which is host | hrDevice | hrProcessortable | hrProcessorEntry | hrProcessorLoad and then the instance's. The problem is that on 2 out of 8 servers the instance changes on reboot. is there a way around this? =20 =20 =20 Kenneth Falor, MCSA, MCP, A+ IT Operations =20 =20 =20 -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below -- -- Type: text/x-vcard -- Desc: Kenneth Falor.vcf -- Size: 519 bytes -- URL : http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/pantomime/09-Kenneth%20Falor.vcf -- 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
