Perhaps you could use SNMP for windows monitoring. I know when we were using Tivoli I had some success using SNMP Informant, http://www.snmp-informant.com/

Regards,

Neil Simmonds

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Steven Carr Sent: 22 March 2012 10:37 To: Carl Melgaard Cc: xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] Agentless monitoring against Win/*nix systems?

I'm using a script that Jeremy wrote to monitor some of our linux/unix systems, which are locked down and I'm unable to get a full Xymon client onto, using an SSH session into them to poll them for stats etc. - http://tools.rebel-it.com.au/xymon-rclient/

Not aware of anything for Windows that can do agentless.

Steve

On 22 March 2012 10:00, Carl Melgaard <Carl.Melgaard at stab.rm.dk> wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone done agentless monitoring with Xymon against Windows and/or *NIX systems?

Regards,

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Yeah, there are plenty of methods to do remote monitoring of Windows (SNMP/WMI/RemoteMGMT/Powershell) but that's not what he asked. He asked has anyone done this with Xymon.

Xymon itself doesn't have the capability to do that, it would need to be done through some external program and the data fed into Xymon (like devmon's use for SNMP polling - though again hardly agentless as you would need to install an SNMP agent on all the systems).

There is no easy way of accessing WMI or Powershell from a Linux/UNIX server against Windows, the tools are few and far between and most will require manual effort to first build the packages, then secondly write something around them to get the information and pipe it into Xymon.

Steve

On 22 March 2012 11:15, <ulric at siag.nu> wrote:

I would suggest WMI.

Ulric

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How is that narrowing it down? that is what he asked! "Has anyone done agentless monitoring with Xymon against Windows and/or *NIX systems?" - read the original question in future.

And it's not impossible, it just hasn't been done (to my knowledge) with Xymon, other monitoring solutions may have that functionality but chances are they have a whole team of developers behind them writing the code and you will be charged a license/support fee for the end result.

I'm sure if someone wants to write the code for Xymon to have that functionality Henrik will be more than grateful to integrate it into the Xymon codebase.

Steve

On 22 March 2012 12:08, <ulric at siag.nu> wrote:

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:43:36 +0000, Steven Carr wrote:

...

Yeah, there are plenty of methods to do remote monitoring of Windows (SNMP/WMI/RemoteMGMT/**Powershell) but thats not what he asked. He asked

has anyone done this with Xymon.

It is not very helpful to narrow it down like that, because then the answer is that it is impossible.

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Only I never said "it was impossible", you did.

On 22 March 2012 12:35, <ulric at siag.nu> wrote:

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:28:03 +0000, Steven Carr wrote:

...

How is that narrowing it down? that is what he asked! "Has anyone done agentless monitoring with Xymon against Windows and/or *NIX systems?"

• read the original question in future.

I did read the original question and gave a helpful answer. Just answering "it is impossible" is a useless waste of everybody's time when what he wants to accomplish is clearly possible, only not with Xymon alone.

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