SNMP Informant

SNMP Informant^tm
Windows SNMP Extension Agents

OS

SNMP Informant - OS

SNMP Informant-OS allows you to collect a variety of information from the operating system's WMI subsystem. It does this by providing a bridge between SNMP and the local WMI subsystem of the server where it is installed.

With the consolidated agents, you can monitor the operating system, the hardware (availability of some stats depends on the motherboard manufacturer, and their support for WMI), Virtual Server and Hyper-V.


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WMI Provider for OS - This provider enables you to to collect detailed information about OS drivers, service start-up parameters, processes, etc. using SNMP to access the WMI subsystem of remote Windows 2000, XP or 2003 systems.

Supporting SETS, the WMI-OS version allows you to remotely:

query service state
start/stop/pause services
remotely execute programs
shutdown/restart servers

Informant-WMI was primarily developed for system administrators who are interested in gathering detailed WMI system and operational (not necessarily performance) information from their deployed Windows infrastructure using SNMP, and SNMP management software developers looking to add significant functional enhancements to their programs.

Until now, if you wanted to collect WMI statistics from a remote Windows system, you'd have to make the request from another Windows system. This is because in a typical WMI management environment, DCOM is used to make remote connections from one device to another. This is no longer the case! Our agent does the SNMP to WMI conversion work for you, and eliminates the requirement to use a Windows system at the requesting side. Any SNMP compliant application will work!

Informant-WMI works across domains! Conventional WMI and PDH require authentication
Informant-WMI is faster than VBScript calls to WMI!
Informant-WMI agents do not require the prerequisite Advanced SNMP agent like the Application Plus Packs do! They can be purchased separately.

Event log monitoring is now possible with WMI-OS through the addition of 2 new WMI classes (OID branches)! Check out the screenshots below. It should be noted that full SNMP walks in the informant.wmiOperatingSystem.wmiEventLog.win32NTLogEventTable tree can take a LONG time (depending on how big your Event logs are.

And, while SNMP Informant will run on servers, consider the benefits of installing this agent across the workstations deployed within your organization! Asset Management agents are not cheap, and with SNMP Informant-WMI, you can take a big step towards asset management at a fraction of the price!

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What can the I monitor with the WMI Provider for OS?

While only scratching the surface, here are a couple of examples of what you can do with SNMP Informant. Following are a couple of examples.

Want to GET Event log current Size? Walk .1.3.6.1.4.1.9600.1.22.14.1.1.18 to find out.

Want to GET Event Log Maximum Size? Walk .1.3.6.1.4.1.9600.1.22.14.1.1.29 to find out.

(an example of what you could do here is poll the oselfFileSize OID for a value greater than or equal to a threshold level, and if greater than that threshold level, the run an SNMP SET to spawn an "event log archive and clean-up" program (i.e. vbscript).

Want to know the OS running on a particular box? Query OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.9600.1.22.8.5.1.5.1.

To get the service pack version running on the remote system, query OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.9600.1.22.8.5.1.10.1.

Those are only 2 examples of the data SNMP Informant WMI-OS agent can access. Other examples include:

BIOS manufacturers and versions
A listing of all services and their states (started, stopped, stop pending, etc.)
service startup states (automatic, manual or disabled).
Installed applications
Installed memory
... AND MUCH, MUCH MORE!

As with all our agents, SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 MIBS are included with SNMP Informant-WMI.

WMI Provider for Hardware - This provider allows access to low level information on motherboards, hard drives, power supplies, etc., by accessing the WMI subsystem of remote Windows 2000, XP or 2003 systems.

Informant-WMI works across domains! Conventional WMI and PDH require authentication
Informant-WMI is faster than VBScript calls to WMI!
Informant-WMI agents do not require the prerequisite Advanced SNMP agent like the Application Plus Packs do! They can be installed separately.

Note that not all OIDS will be populated. The SNMP Informant WMI Provider for Hardware only connects to the hardware WMI classes, and sometimes those classes have no data because the hardware does not populate the classes. Download the SNMP Informant evaluation here and and try the WMI-Hardware Provider to see if it provides the data you need before purchasing this agent.

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What can the I monitor with the WMI Provider for Hardware?

While only scratching the surface, here are a couple of examples of what you can do with SNMP Informant provider for Hardware:

Say for example, you wanted to get the processor type in a remote system. A simple SNMP query to OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.9600.1.21.4.24.1.18.1 will return the type of processor installed.

Want to know the clock speed on that system? Query OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.9600.1.21.4.24.1.10.1.

Those are only 2 examples of the data the SNMP Informant WMI-HW agent can access.

As with all our agents, SNMPv1 and SNMPv2 MIBS are included with SNMP Informant-WMI.

WMI Provider for Virtual Server.

When installed on a server running Virtual Server, this software agent allows you to collect information on Virtual Servers you have created.

Now a free download, Microsoft Virtual Server allows organizations to maximize hardware utilization, and rapidly configure and deploy new servers.

SNMP Informant WMI Provider for VirtualServer allows you to access operational and performance data from your virtual server infrastructure using SNMP. This can be done from a Windows or non-Windows network management system.

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WMI Provider for Hyper-V. Microsoft Hypervisor or Hyper-V, is a virtual machine manager, which is a program that allows multiple operating systems to share a single physical host (hardware). Each operating system appears to have the host's processor, memory, and other resources all to itself, however, the hypervisor is actually controlling the host processor and resources, allocating what is needed to and for each virtual operating system.

SNMP Informant WMI Provider for Hyper-V allows you to connect to the Hypervisor and collect operational and state data.

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Find out more about Microsoft Hyper-V here.

A little about WMI:

WMI is Microsofts' implementation of the Desktop Management Task Force's (DTMF) Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative for the Windows operating system. If you are interested, you can find out more about WMI and the CIM here.