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InfraSonar on Windows

As InfraSonar uses Docker containers it can be easily deployed on multiple platforms including Microsoft Windows.

Docker is a great concept to deploy and maintain Linux applications and services even on a Microsoft Windows host.

Checkout the Get Started with Docker guide to learn more.

There are two options to accomplish this:

  1. Docker Desktop for Windows (ideal for home-lab and test-scenarios)
    The official Docker documentation has a great guide on this
  2. Use containers with Hyper-V isolation on Windows.
    We found the Ubuntu documentation to be most useful.

Info

We tested this setup on a Windows 11 host running Docker Desktop version 4.17.0

Deploy the InfraSonar containers

Step by step 🐾 guide:

  1. Open notepad 🗒
  2. Copy the `docker-compose.yml`` file from our documentation page using the button
  3. Paste the file into the just opened notepad
  4. Ensure to set the correct tokens for the agentcore and docker-probe in the docker-compose.yml file
  5. Save the file as docker-compose.yml, in this example we use a folder named InfraSonar in de Documents folder.
    !!! Be aware notepad has a tendency of adding .txt at the end of the filename.
  6. Open a dos box cmd.exe
  7. cd to the folder containing the infrasonar.yml file
    cd %userprofile%\documents\infrasonar
  8. Pull the InfraSonar containers using this compose pull:
    docker compose pull
    Downloading all layers might take some time, the total size off all layers is 5Gb
  9. Once the containers are downloaded you can start the environment using:
    docker compose up -d

InfraSonar on Windows

InfraSonar on Windows

Tune Vmmem memory consumption

As shown by this docker stats output resource usage for the InfraSonar probes is very limited. WSL however claims a lot of memory by default.

docker stats output
CONTAINER ID   NAME                            CPU %     MEM USAGE / LIMIT     MEM %     NET I/O   BLOCK I/O   PIDS
bbf5f976f370   infrasonar-eaton-probe-1        0.01%     6.105MiB / 1.865GiB   0.32%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
8c9e76c02422   infrasonar-ping-probe-1         0.04%     8.492MiB / 1.865GiB   0.44%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
17e811490457   infrasonar-vcenter-probe-1      0.01%     7.301MiB / 1.865GiB   0.38%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
cd31bd13a236   infrasonar-agentcore-1          0.01%     6.812MiB / 1.865GiB   0.36%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     2
69f1e6ccc784   infrasonar-mssql-probe-1        0.01%     6.719MiB / 1.865GiB   0.35%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
e33dee93aaaa   infrasonar-tcp-probe-1          0.01%     5.312MiB / 1.865GiB   0.28%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
276f90782d43   infrasonar-santricity-probe-1   0.01%     8.035MiB / 1.865GiB   0.42%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
72b609c9aa8f   infrasonar-paloalto-probe-1     0.01%     7MiB / 1.865GiB       0.37%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
ae075f468016   infrasonar-docker-agent-1       0.03%     59.76MiB / 1.865GiB   3.13%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     2
886cc62a929e   infrasonar-netapp-probe-1       0.01%     6.957MiB / 1.865GiB   0.36%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
d75b00d7f3ea   infrasonar-esx-probe-1          0.01%     6.383MiB / 1.865GiB   0.33%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
b44ff0ac2e3a   infrasonar-wmi-probe-1          0.02%     6.992MiB / 1.865GiB   0.37%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
3d1e2202050c   infrasonar-hpprocurve-probe-1   0.01%     6.938MiB / 1.865GiB   0.36%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
be51bb8784ba   infrasonar-unifi-probe-1        0.01%     6.695MiB / 1.865GiB   0.35%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
696339a2d744   infrasonar-snmp-probe-1         0.01%     10.4MiB / 1.865GiB    0.54%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
1fa404f5d74d   infrasonar-dns-probe-1          0.01%     5.66MiB / 1.865GiB    0.30%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
525d977d3fe0   infrasonar-hpilo-probe-1        0.01%     6.898MiB / 1.865GiB   0.36%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
c33ffae3eaeb   infrasonar-synology-probe-1     0.01%     6.531MiB / 1.865GiB   0.34%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1
8b6b0ceb9038   infrasonar-http-probe-1         0.01%     6.902MiB / 1.865GiB   0.36%     0B / 0B   0B / 0B     1

Luckily there is an easy fix.

Shut down WSL

Run this on your command line: 

wsl --shutdown

Edit your .wslconfig file

As the .wslconfig file is a hidden file it is best to open it directly using notepad: 

notepad %UserProfile%/.wslconfig

If it doesn’t exist yet, just create it.

Edit your .wslconfig file to limit memory usage You should have something like this in the file:

[wsl2]
memory=2GB