Install for remote networks

[polarity]

Sorry if this has been discussed before (the newest thread I saw about it was over a year old now), but what do you suggest for monitor multiple networks. I work at an IT consulting firm, we do the work for several clients located all across town (and the state in some cases), is there a good way to install netxms in sort of a "passive" mode, then install the agent on the servers at the remote networks, then instead of having the main server poll the remote servers, can we have the remote servers gather the information and send it to the main server.. basically I'm looking for 1 way traffic. If netxms doesnt do this can anyone recommend a product that does? Thanks  for your help

-William

[victor]

Hello!

No, NetXMS agents cannot work in "push" mode. However, there are very little difference between server polling agents and agents sending collected data to the server in terms of traffic - you have to transfer the same amount of data anyway. The only difference is a direction of TCP connection. If connecting to remote network is problematic, there are no complete solution, however, in some cases the following workarounds may help:

1. You can use only one IP address and port for accessing entire remote network - you can setup proxy agent on gthat address, and configure NetXMS server to access other servers in this network via proxy;
2. Sometimes you can collect information with scripts or system commands and send it to NetXMS server via nxpush command - in this case, connection will come from remote machine to NetXMS server.

Best regards,
Victor