Le 24/06/2022 à 11:12, David C. Rankin a écrit :

I don't have as many as you do to look after. I have 15 boxes. I've tried a number of things over the years, but my use didn't warrant a database, and for the past 10 years or so, the ./server/hostname/subdirs approach at least gives me a single place to store the information and I can use mc or konqueror to get to any of it I need. (and if I was ambitious, I could have cron on each of the boxes send info into the directories if I wanted logs, etc all in one place)

David, you gave me an idea here. Sometimes you have to setup very complicated things before you can do stuff simply and easily. I just setup a private Git repository with one simple text file per host, organized like this: domain.tld/host.txt And that's it. This being said, I'm currently following a course on Ansible, so I guess this will be my solution in the long run. Thanks everybody for your input. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12

You can use the appliance for free for 25 hosts. Ralf Von meinem iPad gesendet

Am 27.06.2022 um 16:49 schrieb Darin Perusich :

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

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 10:18 AM David T-G 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

More details and support in the cmk forum. I m using cmk for more than 10 years now. Free versions works fine. If you ve often changes on your clients try ansible for a central management or use the commercial version with the agent bakery. Ralf

Am 27.06.2022 um 17:03 schrieb Darin Perusich :

check_mk is licensed on the terms of GPLv2 so you are "free" to use it as you wish, I'm monitoring around 200 hosts currently with the RAW edition.

-- Later, Darin

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 10:51 AM Ralf Prengel wrote:

You can use the appliance for free for 25 hosts. Ralf

Von meinem iPad gesendet

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Am 27.06.2022 um 16:49 schrieb Darin Perusich :

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

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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 10:18 AM David T-G 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

David T-G wrote:

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?

Sounds like maybe a job for nagios? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.4°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland.

Per, et al -- ...and then Per Jessen said... % % David T-G wrote: % ... % > Got any recommendations for Mr One-Man Shop? % % Sounds like maybe a job for nagios? Oh! I had no idea there was a free version. I've heard good things about that, too, albeit in my enterprise days. I'll add it to the list. Thanks again :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt

Le 27/06/2022 à 16:17, David T-G a écrit :

On a somewhat related off-topic note, what are "little" folks using to monitor systems to see that everything is healthy?

Icinga is great. I'm using it to monitor all my servers. But why did you hijack my thread for this ? I was still expecting some feedback for my initial question. -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12

Le 28/06/2022 à 20:25, David T-G a écrit :

Thanks! Never heard of that one; I'll have to go and learn.

Here's two articles I wrote about Icinga: https://blog.microlinux.fr/supervision-icinga-centos-7-installation/ https://blog.microlinux.fr/supervision-icinga-centos-7-utilisation/ Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info@microlinux.fr Tél. : 04 66 63 10 32 Mob. : 06 51 80 12 12

W dniu 27.06.2022 o 16:17, David T-G pisze:

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?

I'm using munin (https://munin-monitoring.org/). It's super simple, gives you only graphs and can send alerts if values are above warn/crit levels. The upside is that it's based on plugins and you can write your own even in bash.