CPU Monitoring over SNMP

[Circlenaut]

I have a recent server 2008 installation that I want to monitor the CPU temperature over SNMP. Is there a program out there that does this? I was looking at IPcheck Server Monitor but it wasn't very specific about if it can monitor CPU temperature. It also doesn't seem to support server 2008 yet.

 

[Jamsan]

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[NickOlsen8390]

You will need to use something like PRTG, IP Check doesn't do SNMP.
If you can find the OID for CPU tempature you can do it.
Just enable SNMP on the windows server box, doesn't matter what OS it is, if its SNMPv1-SNMPv3 it will beable to be read by PRTG.
I use it to monitor my whole network basically, And some offsite servers.

 

[jlazzaro]

as long as there is a MIB for the information you want, any monitoring software that supports SNMP should accomodate. ideally you would want one with threshold options so if it goes over a certain value it can perform an action.

get a mib browser and walk the snmp table on your server. i prefer to monitor servers via WMI, but thats just me...

 

[Circlenaut]

I can't believe there isn't a freeware program out there that does this. I don't really know how to tackle what you guys said.

 

[Nothinman]

SNMP is a bit of a PITA, why do you want to use it?

 

[Circlenaut]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
SNMP is a bit of a PITA, why do you want to use it?

It would be nice to remotely monitor the server temps.

 

[Nothinman]

There are other methods, for example you can use WMI to get perfmon stats so if you can read the temp via perfmon you're good. Of course I don't know of any tools off hand that do that either.

 

[jlazzaro]

Zenoss, Nagios, and OpenNMS can all do what you're after...

 

[Nothinman]

If you know the SNMP OID you can use anything that supports SNMP monitoring and something like Cacti is a lot simpler to setup than Nagios although it won't notify, it'll just graph the values.