monitoring of Sun and windows servers on smarts

well, you can monitor the servers just with ICMP or installing and SNMP agent on them.

For Sun servers check on your Sun Solaris extras CDs or Sun's website
For windows servers if the snmp service is not installed. you can install it through the "Add/remove programs" control panel ... selecting 'windows components' and on next window 'Management and administering tools' and select Simple Network Management Protocol'. YOu might need the original windows installation CD

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i want to install snmp on unix box i thought there is an snmp service could be kick started by command line.
What about if it is only ping what do we do on both windows and unix

depends if the package is already installed

pkginfo -l SUNWsacom
or
pkginfo -l Net-SNMP

check in /etc/snmp/conf
it's long time since i don't use unix commands

but you can try with these documentation

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-3000/introduction-1?a=browse

or try the net-snmp agent for solaris

http://www.net-snmp.org/

Regarding windows, check what i wrote before. it's quite easy to install and software should be in your original windows CDs

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I have checked and see that snmp service is enabled on windows server what do i need to configure e.g community string on the windows box

if your snmp service is installed just go to services and select 'Properties' for the SNMP service ...
then you will find how to configure the community strings under the 'Security' tab

hope this helps

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thanks snmp has been configured and it seems to be working fine on both unix and windows and are seen on smarts

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