OK so I am a few weeks into CheckMK now and if I’m being totally honest I have no idea how I even functioned before discovering this.
I am currently looking through documentation but have somewhat specific questions now, and am hoping to get some guidance on where this is detailed (I have NO issues reading, I’m just having issues finding where some stuff is documented)
Currently my sites are using Nagios, and nrpe on my client systems (Which looks like is ‘mrpe’ in CheckMK) I am trying to figure out if mrpe is a standalone agent, or part of the checkmk-agent package I already have deployed, and then (in either case) a configuration guide so I can begin trying to migrate some simple checks that are in nrpe now and testing with mrpe…
Some of the reading I have done indicates I can simply continue using nrpe, and the configured checks, but I don’t know if there are pitfalls to that approach, or good reasons ‘not’ to do it… (So if there is a best practices guide that would be awesome, or a guide on migrating from Nagios to CheckMK even better) - Note I have found some guidance on migrating with google, but the pitfall with a simple google as a novice is knowing if the article you are reading is accurate or not… So again just some guidance on trusted documentation!
Last would be UI optimization, as I add hosts to my deployment the “main dashboard” will only continue to get more cluttered… I assume I am doing something wrong, so any documentation on how to organize the dashboard as devices are added would be fantastic.
Again, and I cannot stress this enough, I am not expecting people to give me answers, I have no issues reading, so if you want to just point me to articles that cover the stuff I am trying to do (Or other common issues that beginners run into) I am happy to do the reading!