Monitor Windows 2003 using nagios + SNMP

[Aaron K. Moore]

Have you added the IP address of your Nagios server to the SNMP allowed list of the SNMP service in Windows?  By default it only allows localhost queries.

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Aaron Kent Moore
Information Technology Services
DeKalb Memorial Hospital, Inc.
Auburn, Indiana


> -----Original Message-----
> From: arly arly [mailto:arlytex at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:43 PM
> To: Richard Remington
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor Windows 2003 using nagios + SNMP
> 
> HI Richard,
> 
> thank you for comment.
> 
> comunity string I set up as for machines I have it works OK. 
> Comunity string is same, and let say it is "niceday" but it 
> is same on all machines I have plan to monitor.
> 
> I tried all, but it I am really stuck, same configuration ( 
> which I btw just copy /paste to machines behind firewal  ) 
> works corretly on machines which are direct accessable from 
> nagios server.
> 
> I have port 161 open.
> 
> Thank you all for comment, I need to hear your experiences 
> regarding this
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Arlytex
> 
> 
> 
> 2009/8/6 Richard Remington <rremington at messagevision.com>:
> > Hi Arlytex,
> >
> > Is it possible that the SNMP password (community string) is 
> not 'public' on your Windows 2003 servers that are behind the 
> firewall? Perhaps if they're behind a firewall, someone also 
> went to the trouble to change the SNMP community string 
> (password) to reach them?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > arly arly wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I am using nagios3 and I would like an monitoring system for my 
> >> network. I have cca 10 hosts in "my network" but they are behind 
> >> firewall.
> >> I mean in "my network" which is not exposed to outside world, some 
> >> machines are behidn firewals in.
> >>
> >> Critical machines run Windows 2003 server OS, and I tried to use
> >> NSClient++, in combination with check_nrpe ( I tried both 
> ports 5666
> >> and 12489 ) and I can get information from windows 
> servers--checking 
> >> them with check_nrpe looks ok.
> >>
> >> Then I realized that with SNMP I could better informations 
> ( tested 
> >> on machines directly accessible from nagios server ) and 
> decided to 
> >> copy/paste working SNMP configuration from windows 
> machines and add 
> >> necessary servers to nagios conf files and have all 
> unified via SNMP 
> >> monitoring. I am using *.pl scripts from 
> >> http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_storage.html and for machines 
> >> directly accessible all is ok
> >>
> >> But I got into troubles for servers behind firewall :) 
> Ports 161/162 
> >> ( UDP/TCP ) are open on firewal to windows servers
> >>
> >> When I run
> >> ./check_snmp_storage.pl -H AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA -C public -m 
> ^C: -w 80 -c 
> >> 90 ( AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA address of win. machine behind firewal ) I am 
> >> getting an error
> >>
> >> ERROR: Description/Type table : No response from remote 
> host 'AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA'.
> >> what means no return information from server. First I suspected on 
> >> connectivity and I moved SNMP to listen on another port, 
> run command 
> >> ./check_snmp_storage.pl -H AAA.AAA.AAA.AAA -C public -m 
> ^C: -w 80 -c 
> >> 90 --port 2222 but same issue ( this process works when I 
> test it on 
> >> machines which are not behind firewall ) On windows 
> machine netstat 
> >> -a shows
> >>
> >>  UDP    server:snmp        *:*
> >>  UDP    server:snmptrap    *:*
> >>
> >> what means snmp is listenning ( same configuration of SNMP service 
> >> works ok for machines which are in same net as nagios server )
> >>
> >> I am suspection it could something to do with SNMP client / SNMP 
> >> protocol how it works, as I am getting correct response 
> when I sent 
> >> it to 5666 + check_nrpe.
> >>
> >> Any reasonable hint what I could check will very useful, 
> so thank you 
> >> in advance. I am preety lost I do not really know what to 
> check more 
> >> in order to resolve this.
> >>
> >> Operating system I use for nagios server is Debian stable 5, I am 
> >> very sure configuration of SNMP on Windows servers is 
> correct. HW I 
> >> am want to monitor are HP Proliants DL360 G5, DL380 G5
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> Arlytex
> >>
> >> 
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