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Philip Reynolds
Asked: 2009-07-10 04:49:26 +0800 CST

Exporting perfmon counters via SNMP

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I've got perfmon displaying the current number of ASP.NET requests on a Windows 2008 server, all good there.

I've enabled the SNMP service and I can perform an snmpwalk (Linux command to browse the snmp MIBs) on the machine.

I'm now looking to export the perfmon data so I can read this via SNMP.

windows-server-2008 performance monitoring snmp

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I don't believe Performance Monitor counters are available through SNMP out of the box. There are some add-ons available that will add that functionality though.

    A paid version: SNMP Informant

    and a free one: SNMP Tools

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  2. Install snmptools and add counters to the counters.ini file.Perfmon counters can be obtained using "Typeperf -qx" command. Example below shows counter.ini file with few general counters.

    the base OID is 1.3.6.1.4.1.15

    ;% Processor Time - 2.1.x


[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.2.1.1]

counter=Processor\% Processor Time\_Total

;Memory - 5.1.x


[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.5.1.1] 

counter=Memory\Available Bytes

;Paging File - 6.1.x


[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.6.1.1]
counter=Paging File(_Total)\% Usage

[1.3.6.1.4.1.15.6.1.2]
counter=Paging File(_Total)\% Usage Peak

    Restart SNMP, check returned values:
    snmpget -v2c -c public hostname 1.3.6.1.4.1.15.5.1.1
    iso.3.6.1.4.1.15.5.1.1 = STRING: "2235023360"

    This counter returns available memory in Bytes.

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