Re: [SAGE] Question regarding Windows 2003 Server MMC PerformanceMonitor

[Dustin Puryear <dustin@puryear-it.com>]

Actually, I think tools such as Hyperic can get to the actual Perfmon
data since it can do WMI. As someone else mentioned, Windows is VERY
WELL instrumented. Impressively so.

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David Magda wrote:
> 
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 13:01, Jens Link wrote:
> 
>> Using SNMP and e.g. Cacti  you can easily monitor bandwidth usage of your
>> routers, disk space on your Windows and Linux Server, etc. Cacti or any
>> other RRD-Tool based program is used for long term monitoring.
>>
>> You can also use Nagios (+NRPE) to monitor all your hosts (including
>> Windows). Nagios is used to check the availability of hosts and services
>> and has a pretty good notification framework.
>>
>> Using NRPE with the default plugins on Windows it's even possible to
>> check the Windows event log for messages or check if a service is
>> running or not.
> 
> If the OP is going to implement SNMP then it may be better to use a
> monitoring tool that uses SNMP (Zenoss, Hyperic, OpenNMS, etc.).
> 
> Nothing wrong with Nagios+NRPE (use it myself), but if you're going to
> take the effort to set up SNMP on hosts you might as well use that
> instead of also having to go through setting up agent-based monitoring.
> Many of the above mentioned open source monitoring systems have decent
> auto-discovery, so if it finds SNMP it can do a 'walk' and see what's up.
>