I'll investigate that option but we like to install as little third party software as possible on our servers to help with maintainability and the speed with which servers can be rebuilt and the skills required.
I've had a look and the problem of the cached values requiring an SNMP restart has been resolved in Service Pack 3 and the first problem doesn't really affect us as these servers only have one network card so if the interface is down then we can't talk SNMP to it anyway :) Regards, William Bartholomew Internet Developer Orli-TECH Pty Ltd "Your Innovative e-Business Partner" Web: http://www.orlitech.com.au Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 7 3292 0220 Fax: +61 7 3292 0221 Visit our online store http://www.instantit.com.au > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Prater [mailto:sprater@;servicom2000.com] > Sent: Monday, 4 November 2002 7:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: SNMP > > > A caveat: we've had horrible experience with the Microsoft perfmib and > snmp > service. Some problems we've encountered: > > -- If an interface on a card changes to a down state, the instance > variable simply disappears. > -- CPU, memory, disk space: the values never get refreshed after the > first snmp query. Microsoft recommends stopping and starting the snmp > service every five minutes as a programmed task in order to force a > refresh. > > In short, forget the Microsoft snmp service. You'll be much happier > installing an snmp service from either the machine vendor (Compaq and Dell > both have snmp services), or some third-party software, such as Net-SNMP > for > Windows. > > Or, just reformat the hard drive and install Linux. > > Scott Prater > Dpto. Sistemas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > SERVICOM 2000 > Av. Primado Reig, 189 entlo. > 46020 Valencia - Spain > Tel. (+34) 96 332 12 00 > Fax. (+34) 96 332 12 01 > www.servicom2000.com > > > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mon-admin@;linux.kernel.org]En > > nombre de Jim Trocki > > Enviado el: viernes, 01 de noviembre de 2002 16:05 > > Para: William Bartholomew > > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Asunto: Re: SNMP > > > > > > On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, William Bartholomew wrote: > > > > > Can anyone tell me step by step or point me to documentation that > tells > > > me what I need to do to set up a linux box that is already running mon > > > to use SNMP to monitor a Windows server. > > > > you didn't say what you want to monitor. to me "monitor a windows > server" > > means to decimate a windows server by smashing a 19" viewsonic into it > :) > > > > you can use the windows perfmib and snmpvar.monitor to watch things like > > virtual memory, disk performance, etc. hp has their own agent and mibs > > for proliant systems which gives you different details about things like > > whether or not the fans in the chassis are working, status of psus, etc. > > so, it depends on what you want to > > > > snmpvar.monitor comes with a readme which tells you how to get started: > > > > http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/admin/mon/contrib/monitors/snmpvar/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mon mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon > > > > _______________________________________________ > mon mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon _______________________________________________ mon mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon