Monitoring Windows 2003 from a Linux Cacti Installation

jriggin · Post by **jriggin** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:23 am

How do I go about monitoring disk usage, CPU utilization, etc on a Windows 2k3 Server from a Cacti Linux install?

Cylindric · Post by **Cylindric** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:31 am

I used the "Windows2000/XP" host-template and it all worked out of the box.

Of course first you need to make sure SNMP is installed on the server.

jriggin · Post by **jriggin** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:24 pm

SNMP is installed...it pulls the location & contact info for SNMP on the Windows server so it must be working to some extent. I chose V2 in Cacti.

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:28 pm

jriggin wrote:SNMP is installed...it pulls the location & contact info for SNMP on the Windows server so it must be working to some extent. I chose V2 in Cacti.

Did you click "Create Graphs for Host" and select what items you wanted it to graph?

jriggin · Post by **jriggin** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:44 pm

streaker69 wrote:
jriggin wrote:SNMP is installed...it pulls the location & contact info for SNMP on the Windows server so it must be working to some extent. I chose V2 in Cacti.
Did you click "Create Graphs for Host" and select what items you wanted it to graph?

Yes, and it lists the following (LG03 being the windows server)

LG03 - Available Disk Space Host MIB - Available Disk Space 120x500
LG03 - Used Space - C: Label: Seri Host MIB - Available Disk Space 120x500
LG03 - Used Space - D: Label:Data Host MIB - Available Disk Space 120x500
LG03 - Used Space - Physical Memory Host MIB - Available Disk Space 120x500
LG03 - Used Space - Virtual Memory Host MIB - Available Disk Space 120x500
Localhost - Load Average Unix - Load Average 120x500
Localhost - Logged in Users Unix - Logged in Users 120x500
Localhost - Memory Usage Linux - Memory Usage 120x500
Localhost - Processes Unix - Processes

streaker69 · Post by **streaker69** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:01 pm

Ok, so? Do the graphs show up with valid data?

jriggin · Post by **jriggin** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:02 pm

Edit..

The CPU Usage was showing Red X's, now it's just showing 'nan' as the value for everything.

Here's an error in the log file:

07/23/2007 01:20:02 PM - CMDPHP: Poller[0] Host[2] DS[17] WARNING: Result from SNMP not valid. Partial Result: No Such Object avail

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:24 pm

From my FAQ:

Q: Why doesn't Windows return Disk or CPU usage via SNMP?
A: Open up the SNMP Service and click on the Agent tab. Make sure all the service checkboxes are marked (they are not by default). Restart the SNMP service.

jriggin · Post by **jriggin** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:32 pm

BSOD2600 wrote:From my FAQ:

Q: Why doesn't Windows return Disk or CPU usage via SNMP?
A: Open up the SNMP Service and click on the Agent tab. Make sure all the service checkboxes are marked (they are not by default). Restart the SNMP service.

All of them are checked

jriggin · Post by **jriggin** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 3:23 pm

jriggin wrote:
BSOD2600 wrote:From my FAQ:

Q: Why doesn't Windows return Disk or CPU usage via SNMP?
A: Open up the SNMP Service and click on the Agent tab. Make sure all the service checkboxes are marked (they are not by default). Restart the SNMP service.
All of them are checked

Well I got it up and running by installing SNMP Informant and creating a new data source according to some how-to article I read. it seems to be running fine. One other issue is that the localhost (CentOS5) reports 2M max for the memory usage on the server. The server has 2 gigs of ram with a 2gig swap file. Why would it report it as megabytes instead of gb?

jantje.vlaam · Post by **jantje.vlaam** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:31 pm

jriggin wrote: Well I got it up and running by installing SNMP Informant and creating a new data source according to some how-to article I read.

Do you have a link to that article?

Monitoring Windows 2003 from a Linux Cacti Installation

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