SNMP or NSClient

[Russell Adams]

The standard Win2k SNMP stack supports hostmib, which contains
processor stats (hrDeviceTable), memory usage (only valid under 2G
limit), disk stats (hrStorageTable), and running programs
(hrSWRunTable).

My suggestion is that you setup a Win2k box with the standard SNMP
stack from MS, then perform the following...

$ snmpwalk -mHOST-RESOURCES-MIB yourhost yourcommunity | less -S

Scroll through it and read, most of the hostmib data will be towards
the end, past the mib-2 network information.

I use Cricket to gather this SNMP data to trend performance
information. In fact, the Cricket team just posted my Win2k
performance config tree on the contributions site. Its for Win2k with
standard SNMP and the SNMP4W2K addon. I'll make another soon for
standard SNMP.

Russell

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:24:38AM +0100, David Clack wrote:
> Hi,
>  This is a tad off topic. I use NSclient as I don't know how to check
> CPU load, disk states etc.. on windows servers via SNMP.
> All I know how to do is system uptime & the like.
> Could you point me to any docs that show up to use SNMP to check more on a
> Windows server.
> I use standard snmp that comes with windows & net-snmp on nagios box.
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Russell Adams wrote:
> 
> > I use both, they each have specific purposes.
> >
> > The only thing I can't get with SNMP is service states. However, if
> > you can tie a Service back to an executable, you can monitor them.
> >
> > NSClient is nice too, and does services.
> >
> > I use SNMP because I use Cricket to gather performance trend data from
> > my Windows servers. Nagios is just used for operational status.
> >
> > Russell
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:13:48PM -0300, Rivanor P. Soares wrote:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > Which one to use to check Windows NT/2K states, like CPU load (single or multi-processors machines), Memory load,  Disk space, Service state, Process state, System uptime, File date & time:
> > > - SNMP or
> > > - NSClient
> > >
> > > My customer says that prefered to use SNMP on the clients because SNMP is a protocol, in the full meaning of the word, and then, I could start a snmpd on the Nagios Server. But for administrative reasons, I prefer to use NSClient. It's fully integrated with Nagios.
> > >
> > > You all that uses some of this two described above, what do you say? Which one is better?
> > >
> > > I really hope for some answers... comments!
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
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