[Xymon] SNMP monitoring on Windows 2012R2 and above

Colin Coe colin.coe at gmail.com
Thu May 3 01:58:49 CEST 2018


Many thanks all.

I'm embarrassed to admit that the HPE Insight Management Agents were not
actually installed.  These used to be installed automatically from the
Service Pack for Proliant however in recent versions, it became optional
and did not get automatically installed.

Thanks again

CC

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:39 PM, Phil Crooker <Phil.Crooker at orix.com.au>
wrote:

> Thanks, Jeremy, didn't realise they were still using it... You'd think
> they'd rename it or something after, what, 10-15 years?
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Jeremy Laidman <jeremy at laidman.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 27, 2018 2:05:25 PM
> *To:* Phil Crooker
> *Cc:* Colin Coe; xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] SNMP monitoring on Windows 2012R2 and above
>
> As HP bought out Compaq, they inherited and recycled the Compaq OIDs.
> These are the correct OIDs you're looking for.
>
>
> On 27 April 2018 at 14:28, Phil Crooker <Phil.Crooker at orix.com.au> wrote:
>
> Compaq? From your hostname, it is an HP server? I haven't used DEVMON, I
> just write my own scripts as we only rarely use SNMP,  ...but... you
> probably need to substitute that OID for something more relevant. In my
> experience, just walking an SNMP tree doesn't go far w/o the 'proprietary'
> MIBs. See if you can find something relevant from the manufacturer and
> either install it on the DEVMON server (or read the thing) and work out
> using walks as to where the OIDs of interest are.
>
>
> This is one reason why I don't use DEVMON... 😉
>
>
> Hope that helps. Cheers, Phil
>
> <FirstName.LastName at orix.com.au>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Colin Coe <
> colin.coe at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, April 27, 2018 10:31:18 AM
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Subject:* [Xymon] SNMP monitoring on Windows 2012R2 and above
>
> Hi all
>
> We're using DEVMON with Xymon to monitor a bunch of hosts, mostly Linux
> with some Windows.  Windows 2008R2 works fine but I've found that the
> 2012R2 (don't have any 2012) hosts don't work.
>
> For example, for the RAID test I get:
> Missing repeater data for primary OID logDrvIndex
> Missing repeater data for primary OID phyDrvIndex
>
> When running snmpwalk manually, I get
> snmpwalk -v2c -c hpscada srv2012 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.2.3.1.1.2
> CPQHOST-MIB::compaq.3.2.3.1.1.2 = No more variables left in this MIB View
> (It is past the end of the MIB tree)
>
> When doing the same on a 2008R2 server I get:
> snmpwalk -v2c -c hpscada srv2008 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.3.2.3.1.1.2
> CPQHOST-MIB::compaq.3.2.3.1.1.2.0.1 = INTEGER: 1
>
> Any ideas on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> CC
>
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