RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Joe Heaton
Should I be installing the WMI SNMP Provider as well as the SNMP service on my servers? Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Network monitoring with SNMP I think you're

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Do you have a Windows Management Instrumentation client that will be accessing snmp information on this server? From: Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Joe Heaton
Haven't used WMI before...would it be beneficial? Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network monitoring with SNMP Do you have a Windows Management Instrumentation

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Sam Cayze
monitoring with SNMP Haven't used WMI before...would it be beneficial? Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network monitoring with SNMP Do you have a Windows

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-05-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
this. jlc From: Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Network monitoring with SNMP Haven't used WMI before...would it be beneficial? Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Joseph L

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-04-30 Thread Ziots, Edward
Absolutely, You also try and use SNMP V3 if you can, its more secure than SNMP V1,.2 Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization MCSE,MCSA,MCP,Security+,Network+,CCA Phone: 401-639-3505 -Original Message- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-04-30 Thread Joe Heaton
PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Network monitoring with SNMP On 4/29/08, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys don't use the default community strings with SNMP do you? These should be changed to something unique, correct? Um, the only word that comes to mind here is duh

Re: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-04-30 Thread Kurt Buff
-Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Network monitoring with SNMP On 4/29/08, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys don't use the default community strings with SNMP do you

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-04-30 Thread Joe Heaton
to write anything to the devices, just read stats. Joe Heaton -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Network monitoring with SNMP I think you're in for a treat - mrtg, cacti, nagios

RE: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-04-29 Thread Kim Longenbaugh
Well, let's put it this way. Our Auditors scream when they find public or private for snmp community strings. So, that's a definite yes, you should change those strings right after you change the default password on the devices in question. From: Joe Heaton

Re: Network monitoring with SNMP

2008-04-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On 4/29/08, Joe Heaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys don't use the default community strings with SNMP do you? These should be changed to something unique, correct? Um, the only word that comes to mind here is duh. Most implementations are still v1, which is completely plain text. Next