Alternative to Distributed Monitoring - Remote probing

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Hey Guys, It’s been a long time since I posted here.

Recently, I wanted to make a move from PRTG to Checkmk Raw, but we found an issue. We have a lot of clients, so spinning up an instance for each client is basically impossible, and a lot of them won’t want that.

PRTG has something called a Remote Probe, basically a proxy. You install it, and that machine can scan the entire network. There is no need to create and manage a new machine, just use one that is already in place.

Do we have something like this in Checkmk? Or is the only option Distributed Monitoring?

I’m guessing the answer is no? Thanks

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There is no lean solution for that AFAIK. You always need a checkmk instance.

You can fully automate the setup of a checkmk instance with help of ansible.

During the time we ran native Nagios we used mod Gearman:

As RAW edition is using pure Nagios as a kernel there might me a chance to use this but then you are limited to active checks only.

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You might would like to take a look at livedump/cmcdump but you right you need to have CheckMK Installed at the client side for this as well.

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Hi Pedro,

at the moment, allowing the central instance to scan these networks OR using a full distributed monitoring site are you only real solutions. (Building your own mini-probe with lots of piggyback is probably not something that makes a lot of sense)

However, afaik, the Cloud Edition will bring something similar to a remote probe / relay for SNMP and some special agents in 2.5. For windows/linux agents you can use the cloud editions push mechanism already.

Given the past years’ release schedules, I guess you can start using 2.5.0 stable around may/june.

Gerd