Hi Arlytex, Is it possible that the SNMP password (community string) is not 'public' on your Windows 2003 servers that are behind the firewall? Perhaps if they're behind a firewall, someone also went to the trouble to change the SNMP community string (password) to reach them?
Regards, Richard arly arly wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using nagios3 and I would like an monitoring system for my > network. I have cca 10 hosts in "my network" but they are behind > firewall. > I mean in "my network" which is not exposed to outside world, some > machines are behidn firewals in. > > Critical machines run Windows 2003 server OS, and I tried to use > NSClient++, in combination with check_nrpe ( I tried both ports 5666 > and 12489 ) and I can get information from windows servers--checking > them with check_nrpe looks ok. > > Then I realized that with SNMP I could better informations ( tested on > machines directly accessible from nagios server ) and decided to > copy/paste working SNMP configuration from windows machines and add > necessary servers to nagios conf files and have all unified via SNMP > monitoring. I am using *.pl scripts from > http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_storage.html and for machines > directly accessible all is ok > > But I got into troubles for servers behind firewall :) Ports 161/162 ( > UDP/TCP ) are open on firewal to windows servers > > When I run > ./check_snmp_storage.pl -H AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA -C public -m ^C: -w 80 -c > 90 ( AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA address of win. machine behind firewal ) I am > getting an error > > ERROR: Description/Type table : No response from remote host > 'AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA'. > what means no return information from server. First I suspected on > connectivity and I moved SNMP to listen on another port, run command > ./check_snmp_storage.pl -H AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA -C public -m ^C: -w 80 -c > 90 --port 2222 > but same issue ( this process works when I test it on machines which > are not behind firewall ) > On windows machine netstat -a shows > > UDP server:snmp *:* > UDP server:snmptrap *:* > > what means snmp is listenning ( same configuration of SNMP service > works ok for machines which are in same net as nagios server ) > > I am suspection it could something to do with SNMP client / SNMP > protocol how it works, as I am getting correct response when I sent it > to 5666 + check_nrpe. > > Any reasonable hint what I could check will very useful, so thank you > in advance. I am preety lost I do not really know what to check more > in order to resolve this. > > Operating system I use for nagios server is Debian stable 5, I am very > sure configuration of SNMP on Windows servers is correct. HW I am want > to monitor are HP Proliants DL360 G5, DL380 G5 > > Kind regards, > > Arlytex > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
