Physical and Virtual Memory Test

bhugh · Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 25

Great Product. I noticed mention a while back about adding functionality for monitoring physical and virtual memory on a server. Could you indicate if this is expected to be added in the next version or when it might be added. This is one that could save a lot of problems in the future.

Does anyone know of any workarounds to accomplish this?

Thanks

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12795 Location: USA

Its very easy to implement this kind of test for local machine. But to retrieve this information from a remote system would be a problem.
In future versions of HostMonitor we plan to implement some remote agents to collect information from different systems. Probably it will be implemented in version 3.50

Regards
Alex

Guest · Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 2:23 am Post subject:

Hi,

HM is a great program for many reasons - for me primarily the ability to quickly install a system which undertakes non-intrusive monitoring. I think it would be a slightly backward step to introduce remote agents, something which has put me off other systems. Would it not be possible to use SNMP to get values from PERFMON for virtual and physical memory ?

Thanks
Fergus

PS Keep up the good work

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12795 Location: USA

I am afraid Windows does not provide OIDs to work with memory counters using SNMP. Please correct me if I am wrong.
On the other hand you are right. I forgot about performance counters. New test to check performance counters on local or remote system will be implemented in HostMonitor 3.30 or 3.40
However to check performance counters, CPU usage, processes, etc you need to use administrator's account. In this case small remote agent can be useful.

Regards
Alex

Guest · Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2002 5:34 pm Post subject:

The last user is right. This is a great product but you really need to add memory usage to the test list. And using performance monitor counters is the easiest way to do it. Some products such as Servers Alive are already doing it, without remote agents. How soon will this feature be added to HostMonitor?

Regards,
Anonymous

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12795 Location: USA

Oh, I need vacation

Ok, it will be implemented in July-August.

Regards
Alex

Guest · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 8:02 am Post subject:

I agree strongly with the request for access to performance montitor statistics. My company is about to deploy a monitoring service to our customers in the next 6 weeks. We were on the verge of using ServesAlive until I stumbled accross your program. You clearly are far ahead of ServersAlive in so many areas but Servers Alive has access to all Perforamnce Monitor counters. This is critical for monitoring mememoy and and it opens up a world of opportunity for other items. For example on Servers Alive I have a test that checks the amount of memory used and restarts memory intesive services if it fails. This has been a God send for certain clients (Much better than a complete reboot!)

The other neat feature ServersAlive is the ability to call a VPN connection from Windows then check are remote network and then disconnect. What I really want is the ability to call a VPN connection, perfrom a dozen checks, and then disconnect. Currently ServersAlive can only do one check at a time.

mpriess · Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 112 Location: Arizona, USA

You can already monitor the perf counters of and NT machines using Hostmonitor's SNMP test. Just run the perf2mib.exe that is in the NT4 resource kit (can be run on NT4 or W2k...although microsoft doesn't support this anymore) first...then the perf counters will be availabe as SNMP Objects. Or visit http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/snmp4nt.htm
for more information. I'm currently monitoring our servers this way. Good Luck.