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Agentless implementation

Our agentless implementation leans on our probes and services collector concepts.

In this guide we show you how to deploy your own basic agentless implementation.

Deployment steps

  1. Prepare the container you want to use for your agentless deployment
  2. Deploy the InfraSonar appliance
  3. Configure the probes
  4. Add assets
  5. Review our conditions

Prepare your container

Setup tokens for the agentcore and agents.

Deploy the InfraSonar appliance

We suggest using our Ubuntu appliance installation to setup your appliance.

If you don't feel comfortable deploying a Linux VM or prefer to setup a dedicated monitoring hardware appliance please contact support.

If the appliance deployment went okay you should see an agentcore in your container.

Deploy collectors

First step is to deploy collectors, this can easily be done using our Remote Appliance Manager.

  1. Navigate to the collectors page in your container.
  2. Enable tne wmi, eventlog,snmp and lastseen collectors by toggling them on.
  3. Go to the agentcore menu and click the ⚙ gear icon.
  4. Select the Probes tab and click Sync with container.
  5. Select the pencil next to the wmi probe and enter domain admin credentials, see our WMI probe for more information.
  6. Select the pencil next to the eventlog probe and toggle Use reference configuration on, ensure wmi is selected as reference configuration.
  7. Click apply changes and wait ⏳ for the probes to get deployed to the appliance.

Add assets

We outline how to setup monitoring for a Microsoft Windows asset and a common networking switch.

Microsoft Windows

Add your Windows assets,

  1. Navigate to the Assets page in your container.
  2. Click the Add asset button.
  3. Enter a name for your asset, we suggest using the actual name and even better de FQDN of your asset.
  4. Enter an optional description.
  5. Leave Mode set to Normal, see our Modes documentation for more information.
  6. Leave Zone to default :: 0, see our Zones documentation section for more information.
  7. Add the following Collectors: wmi and eventlog
  8. Add the Windows label in the Labels menu
  9. Open the eventlog tab and provide the server address. (if the previously entered name can be resolved by the appliance you can leave the address empty.)
  10. Open the wmi tab and provide the server address.

Note several notifications appearing as we did't not receive any data yet, these notifications should disappear within the monitoring interval once data is retrieved.

Generic networking switch

Adding a generic network switch is easy, it requires however a managed switch that support SNMP.

  1. Configure your switch to accept SNMP queries from your appliance IP address and configure a SNMP community string, see also our SNMP Prerequisites documentation.
  2. Click the Add asset button.
  3. Enter a name for your asset, we suggest using the actual name and even better de FQDN of your asset.
  4. Enter an optional description.
  5. Leave Mode set to Normal, see our Modes documentation for more information.
  6. Leave Zone to default :: 0, see our Zones documentation section for more information.
  7. Add the following Collector: snmp
    Note for a number of network switch vendors we have optional collectors, see our snmp collector section.
  8. Add the Network Switch label in the Labels menu
  9. Open the snmo tab and provide the switch IP address. (if the previously entered name can be resolved by the appliance you can leave the address empty.)

Last seen

When you observe your asset list you will note a ⚫ grey dot in the active column.

This indicates we don't monitor when data for this asset arrived. We can easily fix this by adding our lastseen collector.

  1. Open the asset and click the pencil icon.
  2. Add the lastseen collector and click save
  3. Observe the ⚫ grey dot turning into a 🟢 green dot, hopefully 😃...
    if the dot turn into a 🔴 dot this implies we have not seen data for this asset for some time, see also our lastseen collector documentation for additional information.

Conditions

Let's find out which conditions are used to monitor your assets.

  1. Open the asset and click the pencil icon.
  2. Open the Effective tab and note which conditions are now active.

Conclusion

We hope this gave you some insight howto get started with InfraSonar.
If you encounter any problems please contact us, we are always eager to learn how we can improve or advise you on next steps.