Server Monitoring
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Seeing as how we've strayed from the initial monitoring topic, I'll throw my standard vote of GLPI+FusionInventory as a SW alternative. Inventory, deployment, ticketing, financials, reporting.... we don't use most of what it can do since certain people don't find it "pretty" enough, but I've got it pulling inventory for something like 600+ endpoints, a fleet of Xerox MFPs and most of our networking gear. They've added a whole datacenter / server room / Rack management module in the last couple of versions that looks like I might be able to move away from Digital Ocean's Netbox system for our datacenter / switch closet documentation.... anyways, I'll stop evangelising now....
On the monitoring topic, has anyone gotten Zabbix to work reliably without installing an agent? google turns up some results for WMI integration, just wondering how well it works
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@notverypunny said in Server Monitoring:
On the monitoring topic, has anyone gotten Zabbix to work reliably without installing an agent?
Why would you try? Having an agent is part of the benefit. Agent means easier to manager, and more reliable.
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@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@notverypunny said in Server Monitoring:
On the monitoring topic, has anyone gotten Zabbix to work reliably without installing an agent?
Why would you try? Having an agent is part of the benefit. Agent means easier to manager, and more reliable.
Was thinking a test deployment might be easier if it's just a matter of setting up a service account and pushing permissions via GPO
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@notverypunny said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@notverypunny said in Server Monitoring:
On the monitoring topic, has anyone gotten Zabbix to work reliably without installing an agent?
Why would you try? Having an agent is part of the benefit. Agent means easier to manager, and more reliable.
Was thinking a test deployment might be easier if it's just a matter of setting up a service account and pushing permissions via GPO
If you were pushing permissions via, you could have a software install GPO for the agent.
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@notverypunny said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@notverypunny said in Server Monitoring:
On the monitoring topic, has anyone gotten Zabbix to work reliably without installing an agent?
Why would you try? Having an agent is part of the benefit. Agent means easier to manager, and more reliable.
Was thinking a test deployment might be easier if it's just a matter of setting up a service account and pushing permissions via GPO
Equal or harder i think. Agents are so easy.
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@scottalanmiller - More info on BASH scanning, please.
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@wrx7m said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller - More info on BASH scanning, please.
I assume you are kidding? I was being silly. Meaning... write a script in BASH to do the scanning. Which actually isn't very hard, depending on what you want, assuming you are on a LAN.
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It's common in UNIX shops to do simple scanning with a script. Make a list of servers, put that in a text file. Then do something super simple like...
for i in $(cat serverlist); do ssh $i uptime; doneAnd you have a test for uptime on all servers.
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@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
There is no cloud version of the traditional SW product. Never was. Not from SW, anyway.
They are making it. It will use agents on all machines as expected.
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@JaredBusch said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
There is no cloud version of the traditional SW product. Never was. Not from SW, anyway.
They are making it. It will use agents on all machines as expected.
Making it now, or someday? Is it something that can be used today?
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@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@JaredBusch said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
There is no cloud version of the traditional SW product. Never was. Not from SW, anyway.
They are making it. It will use agents on all machines as expected.
Making it now, or someday? Is it something that can be used today?
Currently being developed. Not yet released.
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@JaredBusch said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@JaredBusch said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
There is no cloud version of the traditional SW product. Never was. Not from SW, anyway.
They are making it. It will use agents on all machines as expected.
Making it now, or someday? Is it something that can be used today?
Currently being developed. Not yet released.
Oh okay. I had heard about something in the works that was going after the SodiumSuite model. But I didn't think anything had released yet. SS was specifically decigned to not overlap with anything SW had or had had.
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I thought SW was all but dead.
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@notverypunny said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@notverypunny said in Server Monitoring:
On the monitoring topic, has anyone gotten Zabbix to work reliably without installing an agent?
Why would you try? Having an agent is part of the benefit. Agent means easier to manager, and more reliable.
Was thinking a test deployment might be easier if it's just a matter of setting up a service account and pushing permissions via GPO
Create a template Zabbix config file, then push the agent & config file however you like, and then set up Zabbix to automatically register new devices and done.
