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Better way to ping from a agent?
Because most of my clients have a small office I cannot put a Pandora server in each location and have a full SNMP setup, but I did want to make sure printers were ‘on’. Since I’m not using SNMP the only method I could find was to ping the server but I am using a Windows agent to do basic monitoring of that server and related resources.
I tred using ‘generic_icmp_proc’ but it didnt seem to work, so I built my own ‘ping’ tool. I used a 3rd party ping comamnd, called fping as Windows Server 2003, XP, Vista, 2008 display ping results in a different way. Example below is for my a older HP5Si
module_begin
module_name printerHP5SiBack
module_type generic_proc
module_exec fping 192.168.128.138 -n 1 -l | grep “Reply” | wc -l
module_description Check to see if HP 5Si replies to Ping
module_endIs there a more efficient way of doing this?
Lastly, does anyone have any other tips for the Windows Agent?
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2 Replies
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You can utilize Pandora Network Server: Take a look at http://openideas.info/wiki/index.php?title=Pandora_1.3:Documentation_en:Basic_Setup#Network_Modules
Raul
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I use a lot of VBS scripts on Windows. Save this as a text file called Ptest.vbs in UTILS:
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[code:1]Dim sHost ‘name of Windows XP computer from which the PING command will be initiated
Dim sTarget ‘name or IP address of remote computer to which connectivity will be tested
Dim cPingResults ‘collection of instances of Win32_PingStatus class
Dim oPingResult ‘single instance of Win32_PingStatus classsHost = “.”
Dim objArgs
Set objArgs = Wscript.Arguments
if objArgs.Count 1 then
WScript.StdOut.Write “BAD IP”
WScript.Quit (1)
End If
sTarget = objArgs(0)Set cPingResults = GetObject(“winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}//” & _
sHost & “/root/cimv2”). ExecQuery(“SELECT * FROM Win32_PingStatus ” & _
“WHERE Address = ‘” + sTarget + “‘”)For Each oPingResult In cPingResults
If oPingResult.StatusCode = 0 Then
WScript.StdOut.Write oPingResult.ResponseTime
Else
WScript.StdOut.Write “-1”
End If
Next
—Then add this to your pandora.conf:
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[code:1]# Response time for HP Laser
module_begin
module_name Response time for HP Laser
module_type generic_data
module_exec cscript //NoLogo “C:Program FilesPandora_AgentutilPTEST.vbs” 192.168.1.201
module_description Response time for HP Laser
module_end
—This will give you a graph of response times pinging that IP. A value of -1 wil be returned if the ping fails, so you can set an alert on the basis that a minimum ping response time should be 0 and maximum should be 20 or 30 on the LAN. You can also use this ping test to monitor VPN’s etc. etc.
