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Description: SNMP
Informant-Premium is a single
installer consisting of ALL the SNMP Informant providers. From a single
installer, you can select the providers you want!
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Included Providers
SNMP Informant-Custom
An exclusive component of
the SNMP Informant-Premium product, our SNMP Informant-Custom provider allows you to shift gears and REALLY go
enterprise, by enabling remote monitoring of custom performance counters,
execution and data collection from remote scripts and registry read
capabilities as well.
By reading an "Agent Definitions" file on
startup, SNMP Informant-Custom makes it possible for you to monitor
applications that publish performance information to the Performance Monitor
applet, but that are not otherwise SNMP enabled. For example, many
companies have written custom programs, and those programs can be monitored
locally using Performance Monitor. Now, you can "SNMP enable" those
applications using SNMP Informant! The Agent Definitions file is a
simple text file, and can be modified using Windows Notepad or another
editor program.

The MIB file included with the SNMP
Informant-Custom product is a sample only, built to correspond to and
demonstrate the capabilities of the product. Once installed and
started, SNMP Informant-Custom will respond to SNMP requests. The
screenshot below shows SNMP Informant-Custom responding to an SNMP WALK
message in the Registry tree. Data returned comes from the Custom
provider accessing the registry on a Windows 7 system as per the Agent Definitions file
above.

You should note though that because SNMP
Informant-Custom lets you define your OWN OIDs, you are responsible for the
creation and maintenance of a MIB file that corresponds to the Agent
Definitions.ini file. To make it easier for you we have included a sample
MIB file (as part of the installation) that corresponds to the sample Agent Definitions.ini file that ships
with the product. Feel free to modify THAT one or use your own.
Here are a couple of suggestions for you to improve your MIB
editing experieince:
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Use a text editor with a
highlighter, and copy an existing MIB and make it your own. Here's a
link to
ConTEXT, a decent freeware editor, and the
ConTEXT SNMP MIB highlighter. Install ConTEXT, and then download
and save the highlighter in the Program Files/Context/Highlighters
directory. Then, open a MIB file, and you should see syntax highlighting for SNMP MIBs,
making it much easier to read (see image below).

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Purchase a proper MIB
Designer program. If you are
going to get serious about using the SNMP Informant-Custom provider, this is
the way to go. There are couple good ones out there. Check
out MIBDesigner, and
MIB Studio for starters.
IMPORTANT: Due the
extensive customization capabilities of SNMP Informant-Custom, Informant Systems
will provide only limited support for custom MIB file issues. If we determine
an incident to be related to a modification of the sample MIB file included with
SNMP Informant-Custom, or if it
involves a user's custom MIB file, we will be limited in our ability to assist you.
By purchasing
SNMP Informant-Premium, you're making a smart decision!
Here's why:
1) You're saving money!
If
you were to purchase a single copy of each SNMP Informant provider, you'd pay
$1035.00. By purchasing all our agents in a single license of SNMP
Informant-Premium for only $750.00, you're saving almost 30%!.
Plus, if you order 11 or more Premium licenses, you save an additional 5%!
2) You get increased installation
flexibility. We've made it so that you can install SNMP Informant
providers wherever you want them, without any pre-installed components. What that means is that if you
buy 5 licenses of SNMP Informant-Premium, you can then install 5 copies of each
component on any 5 servers on your network. Further, the Premium
product also supports unattended installation. If you want, you can
save the installation parameters to a file (in essence, "recording" your
installation), and then "replay" the installation on other servers throughout
your network.
To find out more about the individual
components that make up the Premium Bundle, see our Products Page!
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