Hi Mark.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm seeking information for Windows XP support for the net-snmp agent. I have used the agent quite a bit for Unix servers, but have very little Windows experience. I searched the archives and doc at a high-level, but didn't find many specifics. I did find a statement from March 2005 that "The last time I checked only a small subset of the UCD MIB gives meaningful output on a Windows machine. Windows support is slowly making progress." Here are some specific questions:
1. Can someone send me a complete MIB walk of the enterprises tree from net-snmp on XP so I can see what variables are supported? (please specify what options were included in the build)
There is a Windows binary available on the download page. I suggest that you download it and give it a quick try. It uses an installer, so you can remove it after you are done your walk. Build info is in the binary README.txt file, and detailed build steps are in the source file under win32/dist/README.build.win32.txt.
2. Does the net-snmp XP agent support event log monitoring (i.e. system, application, and security logs)?
No, but you can run the Windows SNMP service at the same time as Net-SNMP's agent by changing the listening port of the Windows agent. With the Windows agent running, you can then use Microsoft's 'Event to Trap Translator' (eventwin.exe) to configure Windows to forward event log entries via SNMP.
3. Does the net-snmp XP agent support the DISMAN event extensions to be able to generate traps when problems are detected?
Not sure.
4. Does the net-snmp XP agent support disk space and process monitoring?
No. Right now most of the host resources MIB is not implemented. Until it is implemented, it is possible to proxy the requests to the Microsoft agent. For example, if you configured the Microsoft agent to listen on port 1161 by modifying the 'snmp' line in %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\services, you could use the following proxy line in snmpd.conf:
proxy -v 1 -c public localhost:1161 .1.3.6.1.2.1.25
The above proxy would forward all requests for the host resources mib to the Microsoft agent.
5. I think I read that the net-snmp XP agent is stand-alone. It does not run under windows SNMP. Is that correct? If so, do most of you disable MS SNMP and run net-snmp on port 161 or do you use an alternative port for Net-SNMP?
That is correct. It does not use any of the Microsoft SNMP api.
I think the best option is to run Net-SNMP on the default port, Microsoft's on another, and use the proxy feature to access the MS specific OIDs. You could also just query them both by specifying the port, but depending on what you are doing, that may be inconvenient.
Alex
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