Monitoring Windows with SNMP

[mkeey]

Thank you for the information and yet another doc to read. Nagios is real big on creating mutilple documents for processes, isn't it?
Makes things somewhat confusion for a novice user. I'm used to step-by-step instructions. You know: 1 = do this, 2 = config that, 3 = issue command, 4 = etc.

Is there anything like that to setup a SNMP Polling Host with Services? Both for v2 & v3 SNMP?

[lmiltchev]

If you wanted to monitor Linux servers via SNMP, you could follow the steps, outlined in the document below:

https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... g-SNMP.pdf

Configuring SNMP access on the remove machines is clearly explained, and both protocols (v2c, and v3) are covered. Running the SNMP Linux wizard is self-explanatory. Hope this helps.

[mkeey]

Thank you for the update. I was able to review that documentation and it looks good. I stripped it down to simplified a step-by-step process that I and the Linux support team can review.

Is there a similar document for Windows? Something just as easy to follow?

[lmiltchev]

Is there a similar document for Windows? Something just as easy to follow?

Unfortunately, we don't have any official documents on the topic. Enabling and configuring SNMP on Windows is out of scope of Nagios support. Microsoft officially states that SNMP is deprecated in Windows Server 2012 and up. There are various guides/tutorials online (and probably youtube videos) that show how to configure SNMP on Windows though. Here's one of the guides I found:

https://www.dtonias.com/install-configu ... e-windows/

Also, Windows doesn't support SNMP v3 natively as far as I know. You would need a 3rd party solution if you want to use SNMP version 3. Here's an article on the topic:

https://espincorp.wordpress.com/2015/06 ... ompliance/

We haven't tested these documents/guides in-house, so we cannot guarantee that they work well.