On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Merrill Oveson <[email protected]> wrote: > Anybody out there have a suggestion for an snmp solution? > > I need to be able to monitor all computers on my network. > I'd like to even know things like > a) processor heat - e.g. is there a broken fan which is causing a > processor to overheat. Is this possible? > b) does a machine has virus protection installed and running > c) does the machine has the latest windows 7 updates > d) Can the machine identify linux computers - e.g. which Distro, which version > e) printers (BTW SpiceWorks does this well. The other day it told me > a printer was out of ink.)
It doesn't sound like you need an "snmp solution". It sounds like you need a monitoring solution, perhaps network discovery too? SNMP is just one method among many for collecting info from network connected devices. If you want to be able to monitor *all the things*, you will need to find a solution that works with a combination of methods. This list has discussed monitoring solutions many times over. Examples include: Nagios, Zabbix, OpenNMS, Munin, Groundworks, etc. All monitoring systems will take a lot of time and effort to get configured to monitor everything you want. I personally have used Nagios and it's forks/clones for many years, but others on this list have used others. Any good monitoring system will support a variety of data collection methods (SNMP, SSH, client agent, WMI, etc), also they should support custom checks/plugins to allow you to create your own methods. It's also possible you will want a combination of systems based on their strengths. Eg. Nagios + Cacti, or SpiceWorks + Munin. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
