Do I need an additional product to monitor NT Services?

[ssoomro]

Hi

We use HPOV 6.2 on NT for monitoring our network infrastructure. I am the lucky winner of the OVAdmin lottery after the downsizing .

I would like to be able to monitor NT services (DNS, WINS, DHCP etc) up\down status through HPOV (We already have the servers and their IP interfaces being monitored). Is there a way (An FAQ\web site with info will be nice) to do this via NNM or do I need an addon product for that ?

UR answer will be much appreciated

Ssoomro...

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[nfaber]

The short answer is no. With Network Node Manager you are limited to what you can get via the SNMP MIBs. That being said, you may wish to load the DNS, WINS and DHCP Microsoft MIBs and see if you can get any information you are looking for with that. Beyond that you will need a product like OV Operations which can monitor specific processes for up/down status via an intelligent agent running an OVO "Monitor Template".

 

[ssoomro]

Thanx ..

I will go the MIB addition route first to see if I can use them. I have two goals in mind:

1) Be notified when a service go waco..
2) Assign an action(say restart the service)...

If anyone has managed to do these with NNM..please send ur advise..

Graci

Ssoomro...

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[nbowden]

One approach to this which I have seen implemented is to run some perl scripts periodically which check for the availability services (TCP ports) you are testing (e.g DNS port on device is open). When a port is not available, then the ovevent command is fired and an event pops up in the event viewer.

Sorry I haven't got specific example code, but the technique is sound if you can get someone to knock up some perl scripts using the Net::* modules.

HTH

Nigel.

 

[ppostma]

FYI, windows 2000 allows you to configure your services to restart if the fail/stop. This does not solve your monitoring problem, but may help if things go "waco" (which I have never seen happen on those services).

Also, Dell servers have a more sophisiticated managment interface than native Win2K and Compaq servers have Compaq Insight manager, which is also nifty.

P.