Want to use SNMP to monitor Windows computers

[fmulder]

Our installation has a couple of computers where no WinCc Oa is running. This means that we can't use scripting to monitor some items.

We've decided to use SNMP to monitor these computers ( 2 domain controllers running Windows Server 2012 and a reporting server also running Windows Server 2012). I just don't know exactly what SNMP items to monitor to get basic information about the state of the computer.

Can someone tell me what SNMP items to monitor. we just want to know that a computer is 'Healthy'. That is : we want to raise an alarm when a domain controller or the reporting computer down is.

Hope that anyone can help

[michel.eijgermans]

Were facing the same sort of issue. I doubt if there's a 'simple' state which gives you the health of a machine. The approach we're currently using is more or less descibed below. We have dedicated devices so we use other OID's but for logical devices in a network i think the OID methioned below could help.

Probably you should calculate and aggregate multiple states like Memory-useage, CPU-useage, Disk-useage to get a grip on a devices general Health state. I think the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB file can give a lead to find the correct OID's to use. Some URL's which gives explanation about OID's. http://www.oidview.com/mibs/0/HOST-RESOURCES-MIB.html or see http://oid-info.com/get/1.3.6.1.2.1.25

I'm interested if someone has better suggestions

[Gertjan van Schijndel]

What is your definition of a healthy computer? Is it sick when one of the redundant parts (network, disk, power supply) is not working anymore? Do you also want to check if the important services (domain controller, reporting) are still running?

How did you do this in previous projects?

[fmulder]

we are using a Synology NAS. This nas has some beautifull SNMP status variables:

- systemfailure
- raidfailure
- fanfailure
- cpufanfailure

I was hoping to find similar variables for a Windows PC.

- cpufailure ?
- motherboardfailure ?
- raidfailure ?

In previous projects we normally used Siemens software (Simatic IPC 847D) to monitor the computers. But now we're also facing non Siemens computers and devices like a NAS