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Yes, this seems to be a sore issue, as all the mail regarding WMI I've
found in the archives has gone unanswered.... It seems getting WMI queries to
work on Linux is even worse than getting it integrated with JFFNMS at all.
One email mentioned an open source project, by the group Pegasus, that uses a
WMI mapper to allow other OS'es to issue WMI queries... Sounds
interesting, but I havn't investigated it further, as I'm running Windows
anyways. I have read a few example scripts, and on windows it should be
very easy to create a PHP script that uses a 'passthru' to execute the command
"wmic", which in turn can query WMI objects, but alas, I'm not a programmer so
I'm completely lost...
It seems Microsoft is interested in making WMI able to query
SNMP devices (by offering an WMI SNMP provider), but not vice
versa. It seems they want WMI to rule the systems/network management
world.... Tsk Tsk... I really dislike WMI, as it is very slow. I can
do an SNMP walk and get a return on hundreds of OID's within a couple seconds,
but WMI takes just as long to query ONE WMI object (i.e. cpu
loadpercentage)
Anyone willing to take on this task? I think it would make JFFNMS
very attractive and I/my company would be willing to donate further (I
already plan to donate once my JFFNMS box goes production) to the project if
this was integrated... From: Tim Carr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:20 AM To: Christopher Boggs; [email protected] Subject: RE: [jffnms-users] WMI poller I’m also very
interested in this, especially trying to run something from a linux host (or
even relay requests through a proxy, if need be). I’ve not gotten anywhere
on trying to make it happen, but would be happy to work with folks to try to get
something running. Thanks, Tim
Carr Buchanan
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Has anyone or is anyone planning on
making a WMI poller plugin?
Microsoft intentionally left out
SNMP compliance after Exchange 5.5... Since Exchange 2000 the only way to
monitor your Exchange server is either by using the local Performance Monitor or
by WMI queries... I've googled and such, and found a
few examples of doing WMI queries within PHP, so I know its possible but I'm not
much of a coder and would probably only give myself a headache if I tried to
make one for JFFNMS... I'd like to think this is something
that would make JFFNMS more popular with Admins running Microsoft based
networks, as WMI is very powerful within that realm, but I'm not sure that is a
desired result.... |
- [jffnms-users] WMI poller Christopher Boggs
- RE: [jffnms-users] WMI poller Tim Carr
- RE: [jffnms-users] WMI poller Christopher Boggs
