Well, I’ve been asked to at work work on getting cacti/nagios to work with windows better on monitoring such things as Active Directory statistics and Exchange statistics. As most of this information is locked away in the WMI (which btw is a horrible interface and makes me so very thankful for snmp even if its not really any better in a lot of ways), I’ve been looking into a few possibilities. Currently that one looks like a combo of wmimapper (windows host) and a script to query said wmimapper.

Doing the query with wbemcli however I get a error that it can’t connect to the http socket or if it can…no results are returned. First thought…I like snmp a whole lot better.

Anyone dealt with wmimapper and wbemcli before. Any advice, or guides?