I would recommend the Check_MK RAW edition for your home, and enterprise, monitoring needs. They only offer SLES server packages but it should install fine on any modern OpenSUSE system with minimal effort. For your client systems you can download/install the included client RPM package, accessed from the WebUI. You could install the client package from the server:monitoring repository, however those packages are old (v1.2.8) and work fine but you'll be missing newer checks. I would not recommend trying to setup a check_mk server using the server:monitoring repo any more as it is a tedious manual process and the verison is ancient. FWIW I "tried" updating server:monitoring to version 2.x but could never successfully get it working so I gave up. Having said that, I have considered packaging the 2.x client, but I haven't had the time to invest in that effort. https://checkmk.com/download?edition=cre&version=stable -- Later, Darin -- Later, Darin On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 10:18 AM David T-G <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org> wrote:
Hi, all --
...and then Nicolas Kovacs said... % % My question is not really specific to OpenSUSE, but here goes.
Same here :-)
% % On the latest count, I'm managing about a hundred installations: root servers, % local servers, desktop PCs and laptops. Some of these are in our local school, ... % % Over the years I've been using various methods to keep track of all these [snip]
On a somewhat related off-topic note, what are "little" folks using to monitor systems to see that everything is healthy? I miss BB4 :-( For a dozen machines at home and a few on other networks I can't go with a true enterprise-level monitoring tool, but rolling my own ssh-and-peek and/or collect-and-phone-home scripts, not to mention parsing everything for problems to somehow report, is a huge pain.
Got any recommendations for Mr One-Man Shop?
TIA
:-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt