[mrtg] Re: SNMP monitoring of Windows CPU/Memory/Disk

[PAUL WILLIAMSON]

That might be me, it might not.  I'm neither the owner, nor 
the developer.  Just a happy user.

Having said that, one problem I have is that the broken SNMP 
that comes with MS servers has some serious drawbacks.
Interface indicies change randomly.  The reported free disk 
space is based on what the drive %full is at on boot, so if you 
use up space while it's on (duh!, of course you will), it will 
not catch the changes.  There is no way to do 64 bit 
counters on gig interfaces.  Memory and process information 
is spotty at best.  Although some of this has gotten 
better with 2003, there are few people out there that 
have jumped to it.

SNMP Informant is free too.  You just have to do a tad 
bit more work to enable it vs. the stock MS one.

Paul

>>> "Daniel maher" <dmaher at acetechnology.com> 06/10/05 2:43 PM >>>
There is a guy on this list who will tell you just to use SNMP
Informant.  I think he's the owner or something, because it's actually
the only thing I've ever seen him talk about.  I've used it, and it's
actually a pretty decent tool, so at least he's not lying. ;)

That said, both Windows 2000 (Server) and 2003 come with an SNMP
service
that can be quickly and easily enabled (for free).  Just go to your
Services Viewer, and look for the item labelled SNMP.  It can be
controlled just like any other Windows service.

Oh, and good luck trying to get useful memory stats out of a 2000 box.
The stats that 2003 spits out are good, though.


Daniel Maher
System Engineer
ACE TECHNOLOGY INC.
 
 
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From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]

On Behalf Of Bill Matthews
Sent: June 9, 2005 1:58 PM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch 
Subject: [mrtg] SNMP monitoring of Windows CPU/Memory/Disk

Hi There,

I use MRTG for watching my routers (of course) and also use it to
monitor CPU/Memory/Disk on my Unix/Linux servers.

My question is, does Windows 2000 or Windows 2003 come with an SNMP
agent?  If not, could I install net-snmp?  Anyone have the MIBs?

Thanks
BM

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