Setting up Netxms to monitor remote servers

[tonyams]

Hi:

I would like to monitor a few remote servers ( cloud servers ). I need to check that they are up and running and to check for certain services running on them ( some at custom ports ). How do i go about doing this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

PD: I have read the documentation but don't quite seem to figure this out as the documentation isn't explicit enough.

[tonyams]

Forgot to mention that these are all Linux systems. Would also like to avoid installation of agent, if possible.

Thanks

[sperlm]

If the "installation" is the only problem, the agent can be just "copied".
Only few files are needed to run the agent.

If this is not possible, what about "polling" the services itself ?
Depends on the service though... e.g. sending a simple query to test if sql is up and responding, etc.

With regards,
Milan

[tonyams]

Hi:

Thanks for the response. I created my remote nodes under Infrastructure Services and also created the Network Services i wanted to poll for each node and everything is working great now. I also created notifications to alert when the services were down.

Should i install the agent anyway?

Thanks again.

[alk]

Without agent server can check server presence on the network using ICMP ping or using SNMP (if available).
If that's sufficient (e.g. you don't need CPU or memory metrics from these servers) — you do not need to install agent.

[tonyams]

Thanks Alex.

Yes, all i need is to make sure those services are up and running. I don't need to install the agent.

Regards.