I’m really liking checkmk. Got a steep learning curve to go, but so far I like it.
Using the open source version of checkmk (latest stable). Works very well.
For the most part I can work it, but I have some questions that I can’t find answers to:
If I have multiple clients at different sites where I don’t have direct access, how can I monitor multiple hosts. The only way I can think of is opening up multiple ports, but that seems onerous and insecure.
Rather then use the ICMP command why can’t the host uptime be monitored through the agent? Agent connects fine, but host says down because ping isn’t supported.
Basically I just want to use checkmk for a free uptime monitor of my clients and some of my own cloud servers. I’ve already configured firewalls to only allow monitoring from my server, plus turned on encryption, so I think I’m secure??
Typical scenario is attached. Some clients have Linux and Windows. Others have Hyper V, then multiple VM’s.
If there is no direct VPN connection possible to the other network then i would recommend a small CheckMK installation there inside this other network. All the devices then monitored from this small installation and you only need to fiddle out a way to connect to this one host.
There is a rule “Host Check Command” where you can define also the status of the CheckMK service as the host status. Then no ping is used for the host test.
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