hi, in this video i show you how to monitor windows server in domain
Here I have a server running Windows server operating system
It's called sv1 and it's in the netvn.local domain
Its ip address is 192.168.1.254
To monitor this server remotely, make sure that WMI is allowed through the Windows server's firewall
Now from a computer running Windows 11 I will join the netvn.local domain to monitor the target Windows server
First of all I set up my Windows 11 computer's DNS address as the ip address of my network's DNS server
In this example my target Windows server is the DNS server so I set the DNS address for the Windows 11 computer to 192.168.1.254
Now the DNS server will help the Windows 11 computer to resolve the domain name, so I will set it up for this computer to join the domain
Windows 11 computers will join the netvn.local domain
I will be asked to enter the domain admin username and password
Windows 11 computer joins domain successfully, it will automatically reboot to complete setup
Because my Windows 11 computer has joined the domain, I use an account in the netvn.local domain to log in
Here I use an account with username tony to login to the domain
To monitor Windows server I use PRTG software because it's free 100 sensors
You can use other software if you want, for example SolarWinds
I went to the PRTG homepage and downloaded the installer
To install the software when joining the domain you will be asked to provide the domain admin username and password
After entering the username and password, the PRTG software will be installed on the Windows 11 computer
PRTG default username and password are both prtgadmin
For Windows Server server there are two ways to monitor and I would recommend both
The first way is to monitor the Windows server using WMI
Next, enter the name or ip address of the Windows server you want to monitor
Then you enter the domain name or computer name
Next you enter the administrative username and password of the target Windows server
Windows server successfully added to PRTG monitoring system
You can add sensors manually or automatically
I chose to automatically add the sensors provided by PRTG because it is very easy, you just have to wait patiently for the results.
Next I introduce how to monitor Windows Server server using SNMP
To monitor Windows computers using SNMP you need to install it on the server
On the target Windows server I install SNMP as above
You can also install SNMP on Windows 11 or Windows 10 operating systems
So you can monitor Windows 11 computers using SNMP
After installation, you set up the SNMP service as follows
I set it up so other computers can monitor this Windows server
Next I set the community names to public
You restart the SNMP service to make sure the settings are applied
If you monitor a Windows 11 computer, the setup is similar
Go back to Windows 11 computers with PRTG installed
I add a new Windows device monitored with SNMP
You give it a name you want, here I name it sv1 snmp
Here you enter the name or ip address of the server
I then choose to monitor the Windows server using SNMP
I choose SNMP version 2 by default
For Windows computers I recommend monitoring using WMI because it provides more sensors for you
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