Managing Windows NT from Linux

[Tom Buskey]

Ben Boulanger wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 	Sorry I've been so absent lately - work has been keeping me busy.  To
> lower that, we're finally at the point where we need to start tweaking
> the knobs a bit and I'm trying to find a way to monitor things like
> instserv information and potentially the output of some rcmd commands. 
> Anyone know of a way to poll this information (instserv * status and
> rcmd command machine) from a linux box?  I seem to be striking out with
> google.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ben

Install cygwin w/ sshd on the win box.  ssh into it and do all the local 
commands you want.

If snmp is installed on the win box, you can get alot out of it with 
snmpget and snmpwalk.