SCOM monitor on Thin Clients

Question

Dear all,
We know that we cannot configure SCOM agent on Thin Clients .  We  would like to know if we can set up a SNMP monitor for Thin Client?
We are able to discover through ICMP , but not through SNMP. We need to achieve monitor the Thin Clients up and down (Availablity ) only?
One more question Via ICMP , can we monitor Thin Clients up and down (Availablity )?
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Answer 1

My thought is no, and here's why.
According to this TechNet article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212935.aspx, it states:
Windows computers running SNMP are filtered out of discovery results if:
The device type is “Host” and the vendor is “Microsoft”
The sysDescription field contains “Microsoft”
The sysOid starts with .1.3.6.1.4.1.311.1.1.3.1
The sysOid contains 1.3.6.1.4.1.199.1.1.3.11
Therefore, I don't think you will be able to use SNMP to monitor the Thin Clients. You could use ICMP (aka PING), and make a simple monitor to PING the system. If there is a response, it is up, otherwise, it is down. But you also have to take network latency
into question, since that might case packets to drop, etc. which might throw a false-positive. 
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