[mrtg] Re: Help Monitoring NT Machine

[Al Kwan]

Very interesting, I have the same error for one of my NT boxes as well.

This is my experience with 5 NT servers that I've tried MRTG for:

Procedure:

-install network monitor tools and agent service
-install snmp service
-configure snmp service (identical throughout except for trap ip address)
-set all 3 (network monitor/snmp/snmp trap) services to "automatic" startup
-reinstall service pack 5
-do the registry and mib.bin entries from perfm.zip to enable the correct oid's
-reboot the server

Here are the results:

- 2 of the NT servers' snmp services work perfectly, no problems.
- 2 of the NT servers' snmp services work, but do not recognize the oid's for 
memory free and cpu usage (1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1.7.1.0 and 
1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1.1.23.9.0) <---just typed them off the top of my head 
w/o verifying so if it's off by a number or a decimal, ignore..I have the 
correct ones in a file somewhere.
- 1 of the NT servers' snmp service works, snmpget from a unix box gets the 
correct values returned, putting the oid's in a cfg file returns the same error 
Alan has shown below.  But I have not specified any 1.3.6.1.2 number.

Why does Microsoft make life so difficult sometimes?

You can look at the charts I have set up here:

http://hboss-bsd.powersurfr.com

The "Test Area" is for one of the servers that work.  I use the same config 
files w/minor config-name changes and yet I get the results I described above.

Does anyone see a glimmer of light at the end of this dark tunnel?

Alwin Kwan
Internet Services Manager
Worldprofit Inc.



Quoting Alan Rader <arader at finishlines.com>:

> 
> Ok, I am making some progress.  I got it to work on 2 machines, but one
> is
> now giving me this error.
> SNMP is running.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> --base: Get Device Info on public at 10.0.2.20
> SNMP Error:
> Received SNMP response with error code
>   error status: noSuchName
>   index 1 (OID: 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.1.0)
> SNMPv1_Session (remote host: "10.0.2.20" [10.0.2.20].161
>                   community: "public"
>                  request ID: 1441817381
>                 PDU bufsize: 8000 bytes
>                     timeout: 2s
>                     retries: 5
> 
> Alan Rader
> Finish Line, Inc.
> Network Administrator
> arader at finishline.com
> 317-899-1022 x3529
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: johnattan c.p. [mailto:johnattan at ihlas.net.tr]
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 9:12 AM
> To: 'MRTG'
> Subject: [mrtg] Re: Help Monitoring NT Machine
> 
> 
> first u must be sure that snmp is ok on that server...
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Alan Rader 
>   To: 'MRTG' 
>   Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 3:32 PM
>   Subject: [mrtg] Help Monitoring NT Machine
> 
> 
> 
>   Can anyone help me with setting up a NT machine so I can monitor it?
> Below
>   is the error I get when I run the config maker.  I would like to
> monitor
> the
>   traffic in and out on the NIC, possibly the CPU Util. and memory
> usage.
> 
>   Thanks
> 
> 
>   C:\mrtg-2.9.4\bin>perl cfgmaker public at 10.0.2.200 --global "WorkDir:
>   c:\inetpub\
>   wwwroot\mrtg\airgate  " --output airgate.cfg
>   --base: Get Device Info on public at 10.0.2.200
>   SNMP Error:
>   receiving response PDU: Unknown error
>   SNMPv1_Session (remote host: "10.0.2.200" [10.0.2.200].161
>                     community: "public"
>                    request ID: 452526887
>                   PDU bufsize: 8000 bytes
>                       timeout: 2s
>                       retries: 5
>                       backoff: 1)
>   
> 
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