Monitoring Exhange Server and SQL Server

[d0t]

Hi,
I searched a lot the web for informations regarding cacti monitoring and windows servers.

I want to set-up a cacti linux based installation for monitoring the MS Exchange server and MS SQL Server services.

I read this msg but I don't understand if there is a way of making those scripts working via linux box.

http://forums.cacti.net/about12383.html

Anyway I don't understand if I can monitor the Exchange/SQL server with SNMP or I have to use WMI. And if I have to use WMI can I use it remotely from a linux box ? Using perl ?

Can anybody pointing to me any resources to study for solving my clue ?

Thank you

[BSOD2600]

If you want to monitor exchange from Linux then you're going to have to either install a third-party SNMP addon which exposes the data (snmp informant) or a third-party client like nsclient for WMI. There are scripts on the cacti forum for both of these.