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I'm relatively new to the SNMP protocol and its imperative that I find a way to get details of the computers on my network. I need to get the following from each machine remotely:
Architecture
RAM
HDD Size
CPU Speed
Is this possible with to retrieve the listed variables with SNMP?
All of the machines have been modified at some point and have Windows XP Pro installed. Also, WMI is not an option. I have went through the RFC1213 and SNMPv2 MIBs however I may be overlooking these variables.
I have 1 machine that I'm using to test methods. It is Windows XP Home. It has the SNMP service installed.
First, please spend more time learning SNMP. That means at least you should go beyond RFC1213.
Second, Microsoft's SNMP support its own MIB documents. Try to install SNMP support on a Windows XP machine and then you can find them (*.mib) in %windir%\system32. From them you can find OID specific to Windows. It might not cover all objects you want, but it can be a starting point.
In all, Microsoft prefers WMI to SNMP, so you should convince your boss and other stakeholders that choosing SNMP might become a problem in the future.
Yes, this is possible. To do so you need to install the SNMP service for Windows XP. Follow the instructions from the MS official website
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I wonder if it is possible to write a program which would limit the battery charge of a laptop. I know some manufacturers like Asus, Lenovo etc. have such build-in software, but I am curious if anyone had tried creating a universal software for that and if you would share some starting points. Not sure if that is even possible since I am unable to find such software. Thanks!
There is an almost generic tool for Linux: TLP. You find it's homepage (including a link to the source code) on https://linrunner.de/tlp/. It works as power saving utility and also can adjust the battery charge levels, BUT that feature is only for ThinkPads.
To my knowledge there is no universal interface to set the charge levels of laptop batteries, so a generic utility would have to know all that vendor specific settings probably.
A short research showed, that Linux supports more than Lenovo inside some kernel drivers, so maybe that code could help you to also write software for a different OS. My advice would be to research the possibilities for Linux to then think about a generic utility for another operating system.
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This is part of a migration from Vista to Windows7. I now have a dual boot computer, with Win7 the preferred OS. From time to time I might need to go back to Vista to see how the things were configured there and then I will need to go back to Win7 to configure/install the same app there.
This is a computer that had very complex settings and it was difficult and risky to upgrade in place, to install Win7 over Vista.
In order to avoid countless reboots I would like to be able to always run Win7 and when I need I would like to be able to fire up VMWare Workstation and to start a Vista Machine that would have as HDD the physical HDD where currently Vista resides. I would expect the VMWare machine to run the OS installed on that HDD and I would expect Vista no to see that the hardware changed. My apps are not hardware dependent.
Is this possible?
Its possible and there are a few ways you could go about doing this.
The Easy Way
VMware Desktop allows you to use your existing partition/Disk to boot from only if its an IDE Disk.
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_dualboot.html
The hard way
You can capture the Windows Vista OS as an .wim image with Windows Deployment Tool ImageX.exe. Then use other tools to create a bootable ISO. You would have to update the image though every time you feel there are a lot of changes made in Vista you want to see in VMware.
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I just purchased myself a IBM System x3650 and was wondering what the best way to set it up is. I'm going to be running 5 Drupal (php) websites from it. I have read numerous articles on virtualization and was wondering how I would go about doing this. Is virtualization better on a Windows machine VS Linux? Can I use Oracle VirtualBox. Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated!
If you're just going to run a bunch of websites, you don't need virtualization.
Virtualization takes your physical hardware and allows you to logically allocate it to virtual machines. You would install a hypervisor (such as Hyper-V or VMware ESX) rather than an Operating System. Then, you could create virtual machines and install Operating Systems on those (you can install any OS that the hypervisor support). Most hypervisors support Windows and Linux.
However to run 5 websites, use a web server that allows you to run multiple web sites on a single server. Both apache (httpd) and IIS (Windows Web Server) allow this. Virtualization would be overkill to accomplish this task.
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Here are the couple of things we are trying to achieve
Our staff currently uses a bunch of desktops and laptops. Around 30-5o of the staff, most of them are laptops (mix of HP and Lenovo). Most using Win 7 professional , a minority using XP. What is the best way to
Manage pushing the windows updates to everyone's computer since not every one installs the updates by themselves.
Managing inventory through a software so that we know how many computers are there, who is using which one, which are currently being used and which ones are in repair.
Good to have feature would also be able to install software remotely and perfom maintenance remotely.
I am fine with a solution that may not solve all the above so would love to know which one can help with most of these issues.
Thank you.
You need a Software Management Solution, and Microsoft provides just such a server/client infrastructure.
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configurationmanager/en/us/sms.aspx
Google also launched an open source effort last year to reduce the cost of software licenses by allowing employees to visit the tool, and uninstall apps. Not quite what your looking for, but you could likely extend their offering to get some use.
http://code.google.com/p/appreduce/
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For decades, X11 has provided the possibility to have many virtual desktops that can be accessed by different people from different machines. The virtual desktops are thus independent of the real physical desktop.
I'm wondering whether there is something similar already on MS windows OS. I would think this could be easily done if virtual desktop managers could make the virtual desktops ---that they already maintain in memory--- available to remote desktop applications.
My needs come from the following situation. Often time, I have to provide support to remote users. In many cases, the support would take hours. Unfortunately, during this time, the user's computer is completely control by us and the user can't do anything. Now my question is whether there is a solution that would allow us to work and repair the user's computer on one virtual desktop while the user is actually working on the other virtual desktop attached the physical one.
Any input would be much appreciated.
Klaus.
The desktop versions of Windows are artificially limited by Microsoft to one desktop session at a time. They want you to spend the big bucks on Terminal Server if you want to have multiple sessions.
Workstation builds of Windows (with the notable exception of Media Center Edition, to support extender devices) are hardcoded to prevent concurrent sessions. That said, there are very unofficial third party binary patches that modify the Terminal Services code to remove the limitation.
Remote Desktop, from Microsoft is what you are looking for.
There are hacks for various versions of windows that allow concurrent Remote Desktop sessions. Here's one for Windows 7, but similar exist for vista and XP.