SNMP Questions...

[warcrow]

Hi guys!

I'm setting up WUG (What's Up Gold) and am very new to configuring monitoring software. I have several years of monitoring experince, but it's mainly client side and with the HP Openview suite.

Anyways, I'm setting up a test machine (my workstation) and am attempting to enable SNMP (which I beleive I've successfully done). I set up a read only community string. I (think) I configured the monitor correctly, but I'm not sure I really know what is going on here.

I did check out the WUG forums, but they're extremely barren:
http://www.ipswitch.com/forums/messages.aspx?ForumID=5

...as you can see, most of the post don't even have any responses to them, ugh.

How do I get this thing working correctly? I searched this forum for "SNMP" and there were a few interesting post, but nothng matching what I need.

Thanks in advanced.

 

[Nothinman]

The question is what do you want to monitor via SNMP, most SNMP daemons export a lot of information. All you really need to do is know the MIB of the value you want to watch.

 

[warcrow]

Disk space utilization, CPU itilization, interfaces.....

 

[Nothinman]

You have snmp client tools, right? With the cli stuff you just type 'snmpwalk -c <community string> -v <snmp version> hostname' to see everything exported via SNMP. I'm a foggy on the WUG specific stuff since it's been a while, but IIRC you just have to paste the MIB somewhere and give it values to alert on.

 

[warcrow]

I just turned on SNMP on my winxp workstation, and set up the community string there. I configured the monitor (i thought) to watch that specific community string. But, how do I configure threshholds and what not for disk space utilization?

When you say SNMP clients, I assume you're talking about the default client thats included with windows.

 

[Nothinman]

I have no idea what's included with Windows, I'm a Linux guy and my snmp installation comes with things like snmpwalk, snmpget, snmpset, etc.

 

[warcrow]

Ok, cool thanks anyways Nothinman.

Anyone else have any experience with SNMP?