Re: What are the typical traps in Windows 2000 and Oracle?

tortcam_at_hotmail.com (P) writes:
>
>In Windows 2000 I need to check things like (these are my
>suppositions) memory, disk occupation, cpu usage, and I know that for
>example memory can be retrieved from the counters in the registry, but
>I haven´t been able to check the value of the others in W2000 (I could
>see the disk occupation in NT, however), and then, I´ll create a DLL
>for an extension agent of the Windows 2000 Agent which will send the
>corresponding traps according to the values...

Rather than go to the trouble of writing code, compiling it to a DLL, debugging it, testing it, deploying it, keeping it up to date, modifying it when/if the structure of the registry changes, modify configuration files when alarm thresholds change etc., why not take advantage of the fact that the SNMP agent may already supply these values to you?

Is it not feasible to get the Management System read the Key Performance Indicators via SNMP GETs and alert you when something off the threshold? Why don't you take advantage of the fact someone else has already done this for you, in a portable way, with an interface that is (hopefully!) OS- and ServicePack-independent and backwards compatible?

Also, you can miss SNMP traps because UDP is used. But you can retry an SNMP GET if it times-out.

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Vartan