On 4/26/07, tlyczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
chet wrote: > On 4/26/07, tlyczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:[ > Those OIDs are part of the free SNMP Informant extension for Windows. > You'll get graphs for those values if you install it. Is this SNMP Informant part of Zenoss?? Where does one find/get/install it?? IMO I should not have to install anything to my servers to make Zenoss work. Why do I need this when other similar software *can* obtain this information without the SNMP Informant??
Tom, Valid questions for sure. SNMP Informant is not part of Zenoss, but it is a highly recommend and freely available (http://www.snmp-informant.com/) component. All it does it provide an extension to the SNMP agent built into Windows so it is very lightweight. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Zenoss only defaults to using the Informant extensions for monitor windows servers because it does get you a couple of things the default Windows MIB is missing. Notably paging and hard disk performance. Any products that get these metrics are either using an agent or WMI. If you'd really rather not use the Informant extensions and don't care to have paging or disk performance monitored, you could put together a performance template using the admin guide and the host resources MIB. Hope this of help to you. -- Chet Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
