Remotely install SNMP Service to XP clients?

Been trying to figure out some centralized network admin solutions to configure systems remotely.

First, I've been trying to figure out how to remotely turn on the Wake-On-Lan (WOL) functionality on our Dell systems. Would like to turn this on so I can better manage systems using VNCScan (going to have to blog about this some other day). Been trying to use Dell's OpenManage software, but without much success so far. Documentation isn't the greatest and I've run into some permission problems...

Which brings me to problem two. In order to properly connect with Dell's OpenManage IT Admin software, all our XP clients need SNMP Service installed. Problem is, I'd like to do this remotely if possible.

Just haven't found a good economical (you can read that as free) solution to do either of these things. So if you know of any good ways to remotely turn on WOL or install SNMP Service on XP, drop me a line.

Comments

[Andy]

thinking off the top of my head you could try group policies? Alternatively use something like srvany/instsrv from the resource kits to do this or something like psexec from sysinternals to run commands on remote machines (assuming you can install from a command line rather than using a gui)

[Greg Hughes]

You should be able to use Group Policy to do the SNMP thing, and logon scripts are a great place to do automation that touches the registry and policies, if need be. You can write VBScript or JScript components to do almost anything from a logon or logoff script.

[Matthew Galvin]

There is no default GPO setting for SNMP - you would have to roll your own policy for this, which I don't recommend (mostly because I always seem to muck up something else).
I think a script based installation is the way to go - I am trying the same thing so I will report back.
I have enabled SNMP on new installs by tweaking the unattended installation script. This seems to work well.
I am also looking at how to remotely enable this and other Mac OS X services without SSH enabled on each Mac.

[Philip Hannay]

First, you need an answer file containing

[NetOptionalComponents]
SNMP=1

Then run

sysocmgr /i:%windir%\inf\sysoc.inf /u:path to answer file

This should work, providing your installation sources are available.

[Terry Lagaly]

Using Group Policy for the SNMP settings won't work. You need a Read/Write community for Dell OM to function properly. GPO will only create Read Only communites. I'm looking for a way to push out a Read Only and Read/Write community to Server 2003, should work for XP as well.....if I can find a good method.

[js]

hi alex, i am a new administrator. i am using some software to know installed software on my clients pc. it needs snmp. now i am going to enable/install/configure the snmp on each pc (many!).
how i suppose to do it remotely by my pc?
fyi, we are using AD here.

tell me step by step please.. iam really newbie :D

thanks

[John Dick]

To expand on Matthew's post, I came accross this website:
Hope it helps.

http://community.zenoss.com/docs/howtos/install-snmp-on-windows-remotely-1/

[Robert]

I wanted to let everyone know the link has changed. Ejoy :)

http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/howtos/install-snmp-on-windows-remotely/

[Jason]

Philip,

Dell OM does not require a read/write string to work. I use it on 100s of clients daily, literally, not exaggerating, and it only needs a read string. However, if you want a read/write, and easy way is to create the read only the way you want, then use wmi to connect to the registry and change the read only flag to a read/write flag and restart the SNMP service.

Good luck!
-Jason

[Bharath]

This URL (http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/howtos/install-snmp-on-windows-remotely/) is broken, can some one provide the correct URL for this.

Let me explain my requirement in detail,

I would like to install the SNMP Agent on Windows machines in my network from a remote machine. How this can be achieved?

Is it possible to get the SNMP Agent package that comes with Windows OS as separate installable? if yes, where can i get it?

[Chris]

Wayback link to directions at zenoss.com:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071127032753/http://www.zenoss.com/community/docs/howtos/install-snmp-on-windows-remotely/

Wayback link to PsExec at microsoft.com:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071219202113/http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx