Windows SNMP service crashing during Nagios monitoring

[Morris, Patrick]

Michael Ward wrote:
> I've played the netstat game on windows, and like you, I'm not a  
> windows admin either (as my primary).  Gimme a *nix, syslog, and gdb  
> anyday...
>
> I've also looked at that TechNet article.......
>
>
> Thanks
>
> On Oct 5, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Jake wrote:
>
>   
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Michael Ward <mike-ward at utc.edu>  
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> I've got two Windows 2003 Dell servers with OSMA installed being
>>> monitored via SNMP (public read string) by Nagios that have the SNMP
>>> service sporadically stop.  My other servers are working fine with  
>>> the
>>> same monitoring setup.  The error report to be sent to Microsoft
>>> contains:
>>>
>>> szAppName : snmp.exe     szAppVer : 5.2.3790.3959     szModName :
>>> ntdll.dll
>>> szModVer : 5.2.3790.4455     offset : 000417df
>>>       
>> Does the service stop or does it just stop responding?
>>
>> I found this guide that might help:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888798 (didn't help me too much)
>>
>> We have Windows servers stop responding to snmp gets all of the time
>> and haven't been able to find a cause. The servers are varied: 32-bit,
>> 64-bit, Dell, HP. I have all but given up since i'm not a Windows
>> admin, but if someone found the answer you'd be the hero to about 10
>> admins where I work.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jake Paulus
>> JakePaulus at gmail.com
>>     

The SNMP service on Windows sucks.  Hard.

That said, if you set up something to check it on a regular basis, you 
can tell if it's working or not. And then if that thing just happens to 
have functionality to handle events, and can connect to the Windows box 
and restart the service, the problem pretty much solves itself.

Now, if there was only a system capable of monitoring things and firing 
off even handlers when it detects a problem...


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