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HOWTO: SNMP on Windows

I’ve been playing with Cacti this week. The project has come a long way from when I first started using it, and I would now consider it one of the most powerful (free) monitoring/graphing packages currently available.

So tonight, now that all my Linux boxen are being monitored, I wanted to add my single Windows box. It turns out there is a SNMP component included in Windows 2000, you just need to install it. Here’s how to do it.

1. Find your Windows 2000 install CD. You’ll need it.

2. Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components

3. Select Management and Monitoring Tools

Management and Monitoring Tools

4. Hit Details, and check the box for Simple Network Management Protocol

SNMP

5. Hit OK and Next, and walk through the installation wizard.

That’s it. Add the box as a new host device in Cacti using the Windows 2000/XP SNMP template and you are all set. Gotta love those pretty rrdtool graphs!

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