monitor memory usage on w2k/2k3 server?

[Subhendu Ghosh]

With M$ implementation of snmp, you may be SOL...

How come the restriction on remote WMI?  you get a lot more data through 
it that snmp.

-sg

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Daniel maher wrote:

>
> Basically, what I'm looking for is a pure SNMP way to tell how much RAM 
> is being used on a Windows box.  No WMI provision, no proxying, no 
> nothing - just good old fashioned SNMP.
>
> That's it. :)
>
>
> Daniel Maher
> System Engineer
> ACE TECHNOLOGY INC.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> Sent: June 1, 2005 1:31 PM
> To: Daniel maher
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] monitor memory usage on w2k/2k3 server?
>
>
> Without installing any client - you are dependent on getting access to the
> WMI provider on the box to retrieve the performance data for
> Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Memory object.  It provied AvailableBytes,
> AvailableKBytes, and AvailableMBytes.
>
> To get to WMI, you will need a Nagios client (NRPE_NT or NC_NET) on a
> Windows system (not the target) and appropriate authorization from
> this proxy system to the target. (Domain/AD membership eases this a bit.)
>
> -sg
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Daniel maher wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your suggestion; unfortunately, it requires that
>> additional software be installed on a Windows machine in order to
>> function.  The plugin calls a .NET-enabled webserver, where a series of
>> specially-crafted asp / vb scripts (included with the plugin) are
>> located.  The .NET webserver then performs the queries on behalf of the
>> plugin, and returns the results.
>>
>>
>>
>> So while it does not require a client to be installed on each machine,
>> it does require additional software to be installed on a system which is
>> not the Nagios box.  Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me either.  I
>> basically cannot modify any machine except the Nagios box.
>>
>>
>>
>> Good idea, though!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Daniel Maher
>>
>> System Engineer
>>
>> ACE TECHNOLOGY INC.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   _____
>>
>> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bill Akins
>> Sent: June 1, 2005 12:39 PM
>> To: Daniel maher; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitor memory usage on w2k/2k3 server?
>>
>>
>>
>> You may want to look at Nagios WSC (HYPERLINK "http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Communication.41.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1%5bp_view%5d=137"http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Communication.41.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=137)  Requires no client.  You may want to check the archives, I vaguely remember a thread about security implications using wmi about 3 months ago...
>>
>>
>>>>> "Daniel maher" <dmaher at acetechnology.com> 6/1/2005 12:07 PM >>>
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am looking for a way to monitor the usage of physical RAM on Windows 2000 (and 2003) servers.  I have tried Xavier Dusart's check_mem_2k.pl plugin, as well as Manubulon's check_snmp_storage.pl.  Dusart's plugin fails entirely, while Manubulon's only appears to pull out the virtual memory, not the physical RAM.  What makes this tricky (I suppose), is that I cannot install any agents on the Windows servers; this means no NSClient or any such thing.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anybody have any ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>

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