SNMP Informant - Cluster Server

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Windows SNMP Extension Agents

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SNMP Informant - Custom

NOW AVAILABLE!

SNMP Informant-Custom (part of the SNMP Informant-Premium product) allows you to shift gears and REALLY go enterprise, by enabling remote monitoring of custom performance counters, execution and data collection from remote scripts and registry read capabilities as well.

By reading an "Agent Definitions" file on startup, SNMP Informant-Custom makes it possible for you to monitor applications that publish performance information to the Performance Monitor applet, but that are not otherwise SNMP enabled. For example, many companies have written custom programs, and those programs can be monitored locally using Performance Monitor. Now, you can "SNMP enable" those applications using SNMP Informant! The Agent Definitions file is a simple text file, and can be modified using Windows Notepad or another editor program.

The MIB file included with the SNMP Informant-Custom product is a sample only, built to correspond to and demonstrate the capabilities of the product. Once installed and started, SNMP Informant-Custom will respond to SNMP requests. The screenshot below shows SNMP Informant-Custom responding to an SNMP WALK message in the Registry tree. Data returned comes from the Custom provider accessing the registry on a Windows 7 system as per the Agent Definitions file above.

You should note though that because SNMP Informant-Custom lets you define your OWN OIDs, you are responsible for the creation and maintenance of a MIB file that corresponds to the Agent Definitions.ini file. To make it easier for you we have included a sample MIB file that corresponds to the sample Agent Definitions.ini file that ships with the product. Feel free to modify THAT one or use your own.

There are a couple of ways you can edit your own MIB.

One is to use a text editor with a highlighter, and copy an existing MIB and make it your own. Here's a link to ConTEXT, a decent freeware editor, and the ConTEXT SNMP MIB highlighter. Install context, and then download and save the highlighter in the Program Files/Context/Highlighters directory. Then, open a MIB file, and you should see syntax highlighting for SNMP MIBs, making it much easier to read (see image below).

The other is to purchase a proper MIB Designer program. If you are going to get serious about using the SNMP Informant-Custom provider, this is the way to go. There are couple good ones out there. Check out MIBDesigner, and MIB Studio for starters.

IMPORTANT: Due the extensive customization capabilities of SNMP Informant-Custom, Informant Systems will provide only limited support for custom MIB file issues. If we determine an incident to be related to a modification of the sample MIB file included with SNMP Informant-Custom, or if it involves a user's custom MIB file, we will be limited in our ability to assist you.


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