Re: [Penemo-users] Re: penemo and windows nt

[Rob H. <ro...@na...>]

Hello,


I'm running penemo against a mix of Solaris, Linux and NT boxes.

Linux and Solaris aren't a problem, because ucd-snmp has
decent support for UNIX-ish platforms.

It's not nearly complete on NT, however. I am currently doing
mib-2 against the SNMP that comes with NT 5.0 ( aka 2000 ).
Just gives me interfaces and hostname ( which is actually
better than nothing, because sometimes the box will hang
and still answer pings, but SNMP or one of the interface
will stop responding and I get a decent alert ).

I am looking at ways of monitoring proceses, because it's
alot more common for individual processes to hang than
for the whole box to go down. Exchange is particularly
troublesome this way, as it has about 5 processes and needs
them all for full operation ( directory service, calendar
service, mail service, etc ).

I've been thinking about making a simple TCP plugin
for penemo to monitor random ports, maybe even do some
simple i/o to health check it. This would be fine for 
SMTP, IMAP and POP on the Exchange server, but other
services that are more difficult to see might be dead.

I think SNMP support for NT in penemo would be awesome,
it seems that we have two options ( in the short term,
anyway ): 

1) help make ucd-snmp work on NT ( looks hard, but ultimately
worth it )

2) make penemo support NT's SNMP agent ( might take some
time, but probably less than option 1. Also, this is complementary
to option 1, because in some environments installing ucd-snmp
may not be an option due to other admins, corporate policies,
etc ).

Hopefully I'll have time to work on this in the near future,
I haven't started investigating it to figure out how much
work it would be yet.

BTW, are you running NT 4.0? I've been wondering what SNMP
agents are available, it doesn't seem to come with it.
ucd-snmp didn't give me much good info though. Just whether
the box was up or not, pretty much.


--
Rob Helmer
Namodn

On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:24:20PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote:
> Currently the only mibs supported by penemo are mib-2 and ucd (from the
> ucd-snmp package). You could try to get ucd-snmp running on the NT machine.
> 
> I know someone who is monitoring some NT machine for work with penemo, not
> sure what he has in place right now as far as what he is monitoring on the
> NT machine. But possibly some work could be done in the future. 
> 
> I'll cc the penemo-users list as well.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 04:16:47PM -0600, DAn wrote:
> > nick, i just loaded up your program and am doing very basic monitoring.  is there a good way to monitor a windows machine with your program?  i'd like to monitor SMTP, and other services.  can i pull stats via snmp?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > dan
> > 
> > 
> > Daniel J Pennington
> > djp...@ya...
> > 512.241.8257
> 
> -- 
>   Nick Jennings
> 
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