Is it possible to monitor overall CPU load/Free Memory/Disk Space/etc through WMI? This install is at an army base, and the only snmp allowed is version 3 and for the life of me I can't seem to get net-snmp configured to monitor these.
It's not currently possibly with Orion or APM to monitor the overall CPU/Memory or any disk space information using WMI or SNMP. You might want to take a look at installing SNMP Informant on your servers, which will make then accessible via SNMPv3. Then you can use Orion to monitor these performance metrics. No APM needed.
I'll look, I was hoping to not have to install/purchase anything else. It looks like informant requires nudesign or some other snmpv3 agent to work, I'll have to see if I can get it to work with net-snmp.
You are correct but $20.00 for NuDesign's SNMP Agent might be worth it in the end. Good luck.
I guess maybe I don't understand the question.
Orion/APM monitors disk/volume space via SNMPv3 just fine. Start the System Manager, add a new host, check the node type as SNMPv3, put in your authentication information. That's all there is to it.
To note one thing, of course in Windows there is no SNMPv3 agent...it is only SNMPv1 and 2. But every other OS that comes with a SNMPv3 agent by default works fine through Orion to be monitored. I use SNMPv3 for monitoring Red Hat Linux machines.
WMI is only available through APM, and only for monitoring services at this point if I'm not mistaken.
APM 2.0 will have script monitors that will allow you to collect data from Linux and Unix machines use of SNMP. You'll just need an SSH connection. We will provide some scripts out of the box. You will also be able to leverage Nagios scripts, which should give you a substantial library to choose from.
