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I need to monitor the health of a couple unmanaged servers (specifically Dell SC1425), preferably using WMI or SNMP. They are running Windows Server 2003 SP1.

Ideally I am looking for a single diagnostic signal that I can monitor.

I understand that it is not possible to install the Dell OpenManage Server Administrator package on these servers since they are considered unmanaged. I have used this on other Dell servers and then used the Status flag in the CIM_System element of root\cimv2\Dell through WMI. This nicely wraps up all the main system diagnostics so that any error can be flagged up for investigation. Similarly on HP servers I have used the .iso.org.dod.internet.private.enterprises.compaq.cpqHealth.cpqHeMibRev.cpqHeMibCondition SNMP flag provided through the HP Insight Management Agents package to a similar effect.

Does anyone know what the Status flag in the CIM_System element of the standard root\cimv2 namespace actually monitors? It is currently showing 'Ok' but what would make it show another value? I have tried to search the documentation but couldn't find anything!

Alternatively, is there another way to provide simple diagnostics on an unmanaged server?

Any help is highly appreciated!

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Most Operating Systems support a SNMP agent that you can poll for general stats like CPU usage, memory usage, hard-drive usage, etc. This is called the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB and is a standard that most agents support. Windows supports this MIB in their SNMP agent service.

I suggest installing and starting the SNMP agent. You should then be able to poll the Windows machine using SNMP gets and the like; anything that is SNMPv2c and SNMPv1.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1514

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