Probes

Introduction

Probe mission

We use open standards and vendor-provided technologies to query controlled systems.

Probes are collectors that use open standards or vendor provided methods to retrieve monitoring data from a remote asset.

All InfraSonar provided probes are available as open source on our GitHub repository as we believe in transparency with regards to data collection and systems access.

When a new asset (host) is added and the InfraSonar admin enables a specific probe for this asset, a discovery routine will be started to identify the asset and determine which checks InfraSonar can perform.

Deployment

Probes are typically deployed using a Docker image running as a Docker container one or more InfraSonar appliances.

Upon startup a probe registers itself to the for this probe configured agentcore

Because probes usually run in the same Docker network as the agentcore, they can easily connect to it.

Configuration

Probes can easily be deployed using our appliance manager.