Can we discover Windows using SNMP?

[Mallikarjuna ra]

Hi Everyone 

Can any one help me to the query bellow

Can we discover Windows using SNMP?

thanks &regards 

Mallikarjun

[Mallikarjuna ra]

Thanks to reply,

Even though it is not recommended I need the process of it  

i have enabled SNMP service in my windows as bellow 

Start Button>control panel>Program &Feature >Turn windows feature on or off>Windows Features>SNMP

And 

I created schedule for behavior (SNMP only)and ran the discovery but it is not processing it showing 

Alive,not active ,not classified

[VivekSattanatha]

Hi,

As i said OOB it will be disabled in ServiceNow. Please activate windows classification for SNMP here in these table 

https://instancename/discovery_classy_snmp_list.do?sysparm_query=nameLIKEWindows

Also make sure port 161 is opened from MID server to discover your windows device.

Regards,

Vivek

[doug_schulze]

You can but you won't like it.  Back when we started discovery we had some SNMP classifiers to gather compute devices (windows, Linux ect) but didn't ever do much more than just classify the device. We found out early that important pieces such as running processes and installed software were not going to be able to be queried so we just let it die on the vine.  We never "took" anything away to accomplish this though.  You can still build yourself an SNMP classifier for windows, build out the necessary identity and exploration probes to gather what you need.  That's the beauty of the tool... But what you will find is WMI is a much better and easier method in getting the data that makes up a quality CI.

Hope that helps.

[moresr]

By using snmpwalk or any snmp browser like iReasoning from mid server check your windows box is responding to snmp...

From error suspect that ...ip is reachable but not responding on SNMP port.

[Manasa8]

Yes but WMI is better option as per standard practice