Server Monitoring
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@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:
I have a very small lan at a non-profit I am doing IT volunteer work for. They have very little if any budget so looking for the best free stuff if possible. When you say run everything in a VM, what are you using as a host?
Whatever the Windows VMs are on. Hyper-V, KVM, Xen... whatever free tool you are using. Vmware would work, but obviously that requires money and has no place in a non-profit. So I'm assuming no Vmware.
But your Linux VM can run anywhere a Windows VM can, but better.
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@philmcdonnell veeam recently released veeam one community edition.
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@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:
Not much experience with Linux except for web servers that run CentOS and cPanel or DirectAdmin control panels.
Thanks for all your help everyone!None of the platform stuff is affected by it being Linux. Linux is only what you install in the VM. All of your servers, especially in a non-profit as they have less buffer, should be virtualized already (anything since 2005 or so.) So in theory, they should be all set with whatever that is. Hyper-V is the most common and expected here. Personally I'd prefer KVM. but anything works.
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@murpheous said in Server Monitoring:
@philmcdonnell veeam recently released veeam one community edition.
That's been around for years, but boy does it do a lot more now than it used to.
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@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:
@dafyre Thank you for your insight! I am leaning towards Zabbix, just didn't want to launch a separate machine just for that. But I am sure I will find other uses for the machine
No need for a separate machine, just a separate VM. And you'd want a separate VM no matter what monitoring tool you go with.
I have a very small lan at a non-profit I am doing IT volunteer work for. They have very little if any budget so looking for the best free stuff if possible. When you say run everything in a VM, what are you using as a host? Is the host Windows or Linux and what would be the controller? I have used VirtualBox on Windows before, never done it on Linux. Not much experience with Linux except for web servers that run CentOS and cPanel or DirectAdmin control panels.
Thanks for all your help everyone!
I've currently got a Zabbix instance running in VirtualBox on my Laptop
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@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:
@dafyre Thank you for your insight! I am leaning towards Zabbix, just didn't want to launch a separate machine just for that. But I am sure I will find other uses for the machine
No need for a separate machine, just a separate VM. And you'd want a separate VM no matter what monitoring tool you go with.
I have a very small lan at a non-profit I am doing IT volunteer work for. They have very little if any budget so looking for the best free stuff if possible. When you say run everything in a VM, what are you using as a host? Is the host Windows or Linux and what would be the controller? I have used VirtualBox on Windows before, never done it on Linux. Not much experience with Linux except for web servers that run CentOS and cPanel or DirectAdmin control panels.
Thanks for all your help everyone!
You can maybe try https://www.lansweeper.com/ as well, for under 100 devices its free. I have personally not used it but have seen it appear in lots of searches.
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@dafyre Thanks, going to test it that way first I guess. Then figure out a VM to use for production.
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Timely topic for me. I've been using SpiceWorks help desk for many years to monitor my network/workstations/servers and to track my issues. No one here uses it to OPEN TICKETS and as Scott mentioned earlier, I believe the desktop version of the Help Desk is dead. I looked at going to the cloud version but I didn't want to have to load an agent on all devices.
We are firmly into Office 365 (E1 and E3) and I've considered using Microsoft To-Do/Planner (and Maybe a SharePoint Teams List) for my day to day stuff and to also look up historical records. But I don't want to lose my sever/workstation/network scanner as it has provided good info when I needed it. So, I'm looking for something to scan my entire network, similar to SpiceWorks help desk and just keep my to-do list separate.
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@garak0410 said in Server Monitoring:
So, I'm looking for something to scan my entire network, similar to SpiceWorks help desk and just keep my to-do list separate.
Not sure anything is really all that similar. Zabbix and Zenoss are powerful, but very different. Some RMM tools are similar, but don't have the same coverage for networking gear.
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@garak0410 said in Server Monitoring:
I looked at going to the cloud version but I didn't want to have to load an agent on all devices.
There is no cloud version of the traditional SW product. Never was. Not from SW, anyway. Third parties (like NTG) used to do a hosted SW product, but because of the Windows Server requirement for SW, the cost of hosting an instance was insane and not very popular at all. To get the performance necessary to make it really work, it was not viable on cloud so had to be colo. And then licensing was a bear.
There are some isolated cloud products and a cloud ticketing system, but nothing comparable to the traditional software system and AFAIK nothing that uses agents.
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I am looking into PDQ Inventory to replace SW inventory.
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@wrx7m I dont use Inventory but I do use Deploy for some of our things here. That product works great so I would think Inventory would be great also if your looking at them.
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@wrx7m said in Server Monitoring:
I am looking into PDQ Inventory to replace SW inventory.
Free, or paid?
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@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@wrx7m said in Server Monitoring:
I am looking into PDQ Inventory to replace SW inventory.
Free, or paid?
Even the free one far surpasses the SW inventory thing. No ticketing, but lots of info on your systems.
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@RojoLoco said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@wrx7m said in Server Monitoring:
I am looking into PDQ Inventory to replace SW inventory.
Free, or paid?
Even the free one far surpasses the SW inventory thing. No ticketing, but lots of info on your systems.
Even before you said this, I had it deploying so that I could play with it. Pretty sure I've used it in the past, but not sure when. Trying it out to see how it is.
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@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@RojoLoco said in Server Monitoring:
@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:
@wrx7m said in Server Monitoring:
I am looking into PDQ Inventory to replace SW inventory.
Free, or paid?
Even the free one far surpasses the SW inventory thing. No ticketing, but lots of info on your systems.
Even before you said this, I had it deploying so that I could play with it. Pretty sure I've used it in the past, but not sure when. Trying it out to see how it is.
I'm a fan. After you scan, go in and "edit columns". Lots of categories available, like BIOS version, serial number (gets dell service tags), uptime, etc.
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@scottalanmiller Enterprise
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@jmoore said in Server Monitoring:
@wrx7m I dont use Inventory but I do use Deploy for some of our things here. That product works great so I would think Inventory would be great also if your looking at them.
I am also using PDQ Deploy for tons of stuff. I use it every day. That is one reason I want the Inventory product. At $500 a year (per admin), it is a bargain.
