Windows monitoring with SNMP

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Flava
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Windows monitoring with SNMP

Post by Flava »

HI All,

I have installed SNMP services and configured community strings, however I cannot monitor windows hosts using windows snmp wizard. I can do snmp walk on the host. There are no connection restriction configured. Please assist.

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lmiltchev
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Re: Windows monitoring with SNMP

Post by lmiltchev »

What is the windows version that you are using? Did you check the snmp security settings?

For example, in Windows 7 you would go to:

Start->Search box->services.msc->Enter->Right-click on SNMP Service->Properties->Security tab
- Accepted community names->Add->your_community_string
- Accept SNMP packets from these hosts->Add->your_Nagios_server_IP_address
or you can use "Accept SNMP packets from any host" (not recommended).

Apply. Restart the SNMP service.

If it doesn't work, try re-running the wizard. In step 2, don't enter anything under SNMP Authentication (leave defaults) until you get it going.

Hope this helps.
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