SNMP for the Public Community

<body bgcolor="#008080" text="#FFFFFF"> <div align="center"><center><table border="1" width="761" height="1"> <tr> <td width="178" height="1" bgcolor="#000000" align="center"><a href="http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc" target="_top"> <img src="images/snmp4tpc2button.gif" alt="SNMP for the Public Community" border="1" width="200" height="69"></a></td> <td width="415" height="1" bgcolor="#ABAD7A" align="center"><p align="center"><em><font face="Arial"><big><strong>SNMP for the Public Community</strong></big></font><font face="Verdana"><br> </em><small><strong><font color="#FFFFFF">by Williams Technology Consulting Services</font></strong></small></font></td> <td width="156" height="1" bgcolor="#000000" align="center"><a href="http://www.wtcs.org" target="_top"> <img src="images/wtcslogobutton.gif" alt="Produced by Williams Technology Consulting Services" border="1" width="200" height="69"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="178" height="1" bgcolor="#000000" align="center"><p align="center"><strong><small><font face="Arial" color="#00FF00">View at: </font><font face="Arial" color="#FFFF00">800x600 or higher</font></small></strong><font face="Arial" color="#00FF00"><br> <strong><small>Last Update: </font><font face="Arial" color="#FFFF00">Sep 15, 2000</font></small></strong></td> <td width="415" height="14" bgcolor="#ABAD7A" align="center"><small><font face="Verdana">Your support site for SNMP, Windows 9x/NT/2000, NetWare and MRTG</font></small></td> <td bgcolor="#000000" valign="middle" align="center"><p align="center"><a href="http://www.expr.net" target="_top"><img src="images/expression.gif" alt="Professional Web Hosting by Expression Networks" border="1" WIDTH="146" HEIGHT="40"></a></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p align="center"><big><big><big><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">Welcome </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">to SNMP4tPC!</big></big></big><br> (no frames version)</font></p> <hr> <p><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">You may have heard some things about Simple Network Management Protocol</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"> (SNMP), and wondered what it was, or how it can provide you with performance information and let you remotely manage your network servers, routers, hubs, switches, etc., right?</font></p> <p><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">Or... maybe you are trying to get SNMP working</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"> for either your Windows 95/98, NT/2000 or NetWare servers, but are getting frustrated by how close you seem to be, but you can't quite get it!</font></p> <p><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">Maybe you are using </font><a href="mrtg.htm"><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"> <img src="images/mrtg-l.gif" alt="Check out MRTG!" border="0" width="63" height="25"><img src="images/mrtg-m.gif" alt="Check out MRTG!" border="0" width="25" height="25"></font></a><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana"> to monitor your network, and would like to include servers and workstations </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">instead of just network devices.</font></p> <p><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">Well, it was out of my frustration in finding any decent support (either from Microsoft or Novell) in this area that I decided to put my own web together.</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">  Despite its acronym, SNMP is not exactly simple!   In fact, it never ceases to amaze me how much of a black art implementing and using SNMP seems to be.  For all it's ubiquity (almost all of the major vendors support SNMP), the information you need to get it installed and running properly just doesn't seem to be too easy to find.  My goal is to provide you with that information!!</font></p> <p><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">With information you can get here, there is no reason that you can't soon be using SNMP to monitor critical server and network performance indicators from a variety of systems!</font></p> <hr> <p align="center"><img src="images/grnball.gif" alt="grnball.gif (995 bytes)" width="13" height="13"><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana"><big><big> <em><u>Table of Contents</u></em> </big></big></font> <img src="images/grnball.gif" alt="grnball.gif (995 bytes)" width="13" height="13"><br> <em><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"><strong>To explore this web, click a button in the table below. </strong></font></em></p> <p align="center"><a href="default.htm" target="_parent"><img src="images/home.gif" alt="Go to the Home Page" border="1" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="47"></a>    <a href="whatsnew.htm"> <img src="images/whatsnew.gif" alt="What's new at SNMP4tPC?" border="1" width="200" height="48"></a>    <a href="informat.htm"><img src="images/information.gif" alt="What do you want to know? Chat with the operator and more!" border="1" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="47"></a>    <a href="implemen.htm"><img src="images/implementation.gif" alt="Installing SNMP on Win9x/NT/2000/NetWare/Linux" border="1" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46"></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="testing.htm"><img src="images/testing.gif" alt="Testing Your SNMP Implementation" border="1" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="44"></a>     <a href="manageme.htm"> <img src="images/management.gif" alt="Real world Network Management (MRTG, etc.)" border="1" width="200" height="43"></a>    <a href="troubles.htm"> <img src="images/troubleshoot.gif" alt="Troubleshooting and Problem Solving" border="1" width="200" height="43"></a>    <a href="links.htm"> <img src="images/links.gif" alt="Helpful Links" border="1" width="200" height="43"></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="miscella.htm"><img src="images/miscellaneous.gif" alt="Miscellaneous NT Support Files" border="1" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="47"></a>     <a href="worthy.htm"> <img src="images/worthy.gif" alt="Is SNMP4tPC worthy?" border="1" width="200" height="48"></a>    <a href="supporte.htm"><img src="images/supporters.gif" alt="SNMP4tPC Supporters Appreciation Page" border="1" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="47"></a>    <a href="freeware.htm"><img src="images/freeware.gif" alt="Garth's FreeWare Picks!" border="1" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="46"></a></p> <hr> <p><img src="images/grnball.gif" alt="grnball.gif (995 bytes)" width="13" height="13"> <em><strong><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">This site will likely save you days of research and frustration!  For eample, if you are looking to install SNMP and collect Windows NT performance statististics over the network using an SNMP Network Management Station (NMS), you can now accomplish it completely in </font><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">less than an hour!!</font></strong></em></p> <p><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">If you were to start from scratch, you would have to purchase the NT Resource Kit, read about the MS SNMP implementation, figure out how perf2mib and mibcc works, modify the (rather sparse) sample they provide, and test, then retry, test, then retry, and so on and so on.  I know!  I've done it!</font></p> <p><img src="images/grnball.gif" alt="grnball.gif (995 bytes)" width="13" height="13"> <font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"><strong><em>Since June of 1999, this site has helped thousands of people sucessfully implement (and use) SNMP on the major MS platforms and Novell NetWare!</em></strong></font></p> <hr> <p><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">In addition to SNMP installation and implementation support, this site provides help for those who want to take SNMP one step farther and do something with it!</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">  Not just that, but at minimal or no ca$h outlay!  No Kidding!  It just takes time to set it up.  And hey!  You've got nothing but time, right?)  NOT!!</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"><a href="mrtg.htm"> <img src="images/mrtg-l.gif" alt="Check out MRTG!" border="0" width="63" height="25"><img src="images/mrtg-m.gif" alt="Check out MRTG!" border="0" width="25" height="25"></a>, the <a href="mrtg.htm"> <img src="images/mrtg-r.gif" alt="Check out MRTG!" border="0" width="388" height="25"></a>, is a freeware tool that supports the collection and display (in HTML pages) of SNMP statistics, thereby enabling you to monitor usage patterns over daily, weekly, monthly and yearly periods.</font></p> <p><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">Once you have SNMP properly installed and running, and MRTG happily collecting performance information, you can then build your own HTML-based Network Monitoring System</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">.   Correctly configured, almost any device that supports SNMP can be monitored my MRTG.  Routers, hubs, switches, workstations, servers, UPSs' and more can all be accessed by MRTG.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">This kind of information can be particularly handy should you find yourself in the position of justifying a LAN, WAN or system upgrade or need to diagnose a network bottleneck.  Ya just can't argue with cold, hard facts!</font></p> <p><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">Sounds Cool, eh?   And wouldn't it be neat to do something like send an email message, page a technician or run a program if one of those statistics reached a threshold value?</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">  Say, low disk space for example?  Or high network throughput?  Well you can do THAT too with MRTG using thresholds!</font></p> <hr> <p><font color="#FFFF00" face="Verdana">Here are just a few comments</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"> from people who have downloaded SNMP4NT and SNMP4NW.   I removed peoples' names to protect their privacy</font> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana"><font color="#FFFF00"><small>"I want to thank you for a great and informative site, that was VERY helpful with a project I'm working on."</small></font><br> </font></li> </ul> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00" size="2">"You are to be commended on this website.   It is fantastic!  I have found</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00"> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00" size="2">nothing even close to providing the information and details on SNMP for the</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00"> </font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00" size="2">Windows platform."</font><br> </li> </ul> <ul> <li><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00"><small>"Thanks for a great web site!  It made it much easier for me to understand how to get the SNMP stuff working on a couple of NT and Novell servers I wanted to monitor.</small></font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00" size="2">"</font><br> </li> </ul> <ul> <li><small><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00">"I found your site a few weeks ago, and really enjoy the information about SNMP.  I'm amazed by the completness you've reached in the public information you're publishing."</font></small></li> </ul> <hr> <p><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00">You will also find useful links to free</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"> and commercial monitoring software, SNMP resources , troubleshooting tips, MIBS and more!  Check it out!</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">If you do find this site to be useful, please recommend it to a friend or colleague, and consider <a href="worthy.htm">showing your appreciation</a>!</font></p> <hr> <p><strong><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00">This site is primarily focused on SNMP, and its implementation in Windows and NetWare environments.</font></strong></p> <p><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">I want to be able to add better Linux SNMP details soon, but am finding it difficult to get a system to install it on.</font></p> <p><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">I am slowly putting together a PII/266 system (just need RAM and a hard disk now), and once I get it going, I will get around to it.  Meanwhile I will just try to provide links to worthy sites.  I will be posting the results here.</font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00">If you have information about configuring SNMP on Red Hat and you don't mind sharing, would you email it to me?</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF">  I will credit you for your documentation (and link to your site if you have one).</font></p> <hr> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00">Want to link to my site?</font><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"><big> </big>If you like what you see and would like to link to this site, please use the following information, and send me an <a href="mailto:garth.williams@wtcs.org">email</a> letting me know.</font></p> <div align="center"><center><table border="1" width="75%" height="109"> <tr> <td width="29%" height="52"><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFF00">Banner</font></td> <td width="71%" height="52"><p align="center"><font face="Verdana" color="#FFFFFF"><img 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