Remote Monitoring

[Alastairb25]

Hi,

 

In light of recent Power issues and outages I would like to introduce a form of onsite Monitoring.

 

Due to Finances this would be relatively simple

 

A Laptop plugged in - That could function via battery after power loss

A mobile plugged in on PAYG - That could provide a hotspot, function after power loss and also double as an Internal IT authenticator device

 

The query mainly is what to run on the machine?

 

I have used PRTG in demo mode with the free 100 sensors before

 

Likely things to monitor would be

 

Core

CPE

Servers

Internet IP

DNS

Time

 

 

TIA,

Alastair

[CrootUK]

Zabbix

[Norphy]

PRTG is good if you have the budget for it, it’s very good value compared to its competitors but that’s not the same thing as being cheap.

 

Zabbix, as already mentioned, is also good but you would have the possible overhead of running a Linux system and/or container to run it on, which you may or may not be familiar with.

 

There are various prebuilt appliances out there based on Nagios too, might be worth looking at.

[Tys]

Any reason you don't want to use PRTG, since you're already familiar with it? I use PRTG sat at our central site. Within the free 100 sensors we manage to fit our core switching & routing for both sites, the important metrics for our HV hosts, and things like service checks for important VMs (is SQL running on the SIMS server) etc. As well as a load of other misc stuff.

 

Zabbix is another option like others above have mentioned, and there's a fair few others out there if you want to go the OSS route.

 

At my previous job I developed our monitoring & reporting bespoke in a suite of C# applications, and may return to something similar at some point because I do miss the flexibility but for now PRTG does us fine and from what you've said I don't see why it wouldn't work for you

[titch]

I miss the old spice works network monitor. It was the prettiest and easiest to read monitor I've ever used. I know there is an updated one now but the old one was lovely. Not sure why they scrapped it.

[timbo343]

LibreNMS woud do what you need to do and query the SMNP of the networked device.

[browolf]

try this https://www.edugeek.net/forums/how-do-you-do/230344-infrastructure-monitor.html

 

or if you're familiar with python : https://www.edugeek.net/forums/coding/229802-python-infrastructure-monitor.html

 

I have it on a tv screen on the wall in the office now

Edited January 25, 2024 by browolf

[Jcx500]

Zabbix , nagios , prtg free

[jthompson]

We use Checkmk. Running on Ubuntu.

 

Whatever you use, make sure that you're able to monitor/graph the uptime of your devices. That'll give you a really good insight into power issues at your site.