Begin by seeing if you can poll your system using Getif, the application and instructions can be found here: http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/getif.htm
If you can't "walk the MIB" using Getif on this system, then you're having connectivity problems or SNMP is not really set up on that server. By the way, this site http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/default.htm is an invaluable tool for getting familiar with SNMP and MRTG on Windows. The author also goes into several other collection techniques using MRTG. Garth K. Williams is an asset to the community and a lot of what I learned I owe to him and people like him. If you want to use Performance Counters instead of SNMP, look into the perl scripts developed by Paul Simmonson. His personal web site is down, but you can search Google for Paul Simmonson & MRTG and find his information all over the place. Paul is another person I owe a lot to. This site can also get you started on MRTG on Windows using WMI: http://snmpboy.msft.net/. This is where I found the basic scripts that I learned with and could then modify for my own use as I became more confident. Once you're up to speed on how to use WMI with MRTG, download Scriptomatic to quickly and easily get the parameters to write your own scripts: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=9ef0 5cbd-c1c5-41e7-9da8-212c414a7ab0 And always reply to the list with your questions so everyone can benefit from your experience. Take your time and have fun, Joseph Pierini -----Original Message----- From: Paul Hong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:47 AM To: 'Joseph Pierini' Subject: RE: [mrtg] MRTG for Windows Joseph, I checkout your webpage. Its very impressive. That's how I want my site to look when I am done. I am having problem polling snmp from one of my windows servers. I have snmp enable on the server and edit my .cfg file, but it does not get any responses when I try to pull the info. Community string is: public ip address: 10.1.1.26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I really appreciate your help. _______________________________________________ Paul Hong -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Pierini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 9:41 AM To: 'Paul Hong'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [mrtg] MRTG for Windows I have MRTG installations on over 40 web farms and monitor hundreds of Windows and Linux servers. I personally find Windows easier to install on because that is my strongest skill set. On Windows I can poll quite a bit of data using a combination of SNMP, Perflogs and WMI scripts. On Linux I use SNMP, shell scripts and perl scripts. Regardless of the MRTG platform, I also monitor firewalls, load balancers and switches. My suggestion is to get up to speed on the platform you're most familiar with. Read the manual, scan the MRTG web site, you'll find a fair amount of information running MRTG on Windows. If you're curious about your options on Windows, I have a sample site running at http://jpierini.homeip.net/mrtg/index2.html Best of luck, Joseph Pierini -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hong Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 7:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mrtg] MRTG for Windows Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I would like to know how many people are using MRTG for Windows or should I build a Linux box for MRTG. Because almost all the documentation on the web are for Linux. Please share your thoughts with me. Thanks, _______________________________________________ Paul Hong Sr. Systems Engineer 1809 East Dyer Road, Suite 311 Santa Ana, CA 92705 PHONE (949) 863-0022 EXT 207 FAX (949) 863-0023 ATTN Paul Hong ______________________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: Privileged and/or confidential information may be contained in this message and may be subject to legal privilege. This email and any attachments are intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this email, please notify the author by replying to it, and delete this email from your system and destroy any hard copy printouts. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of MBC. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. MBC accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below -- -- Type: image/gif -- Size: 6k (6256 bytes) -- URL : http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/p/74-image001.gif -- 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
