maximum running time for NSclient on W2K

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Lars Stavholm wrote:

> Richard Wu wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am planning to implement the NSclient for monitoring the CPU/MEM/DISK
>  > on W2K servers via nagios and would like to know how long can
> > NSClient be kept running without restarting  the W2K server
>  > or pNSclient service ( I heard a lot memory problem regarding the NSclient
>  > before).  Any trick is welcomed.
> 
> SNMP seems like a good trick. Use the check_snmp plugin. Check out
> http://mibcentral.com for the values you can find on a Microsoft box.
> Turns out that at least on a W2K box the CPU/MEM/DISC values can be
> retrieved in one way or the other using SNMP. Of course you'll need
> the UCD SNMP package or something similar installed on the nagios server,
> but on the other hand: you don't need to install anything on the PC(s).
> 
> /Lars.Stavholm at telcotec.se
> 

SNMP works, but Win2k snmp is only v1 and and no way to setup views and 
access control.  Win2k SNMP also exposes all the account information on 
the local system...  Just be sure your Win2k machines on a secure net 
before enabling SNMP.


-- 
-sg



-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old
cell phone?  Get a new here for FREE!
https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390