Agents installation
Opsview Agent End of Support
The Opsview Agent is no longer supported or available for download. All new and existing monitoring must now be deployed using the ITRS Infrastructure Agent.
There are three basic approaches to monitoring devices on your network:
- The device sends details into Opsview Monitor when events happen or on a regular schedule. For more information, see SNMP Traps and Passive Checks.
- Opsview Monitor runs checks to test network connectivity to the host and the services it provides. For more information, see Active Checks and SNMP Polling.
- Opsview Monitor talks to an agent installed on the device to see what is happening on the inside.
This document discusses how to achieve the last item in the list.
Using the ITRS Infrastructure Agent Copied
The ITRS Infrastructure Agent is the recommended agent to install on monitored servers, and supports both Windows and Linux.
The Infrastructure Agent enables communication between systems by running a daemon that Opsview Monitor Collectors can use to interrogate the status of the system. It provides some default plugins (for checking on RAM, CPU, and DISK, amongst others) that Host Templates within Opsview Monitor can make use of straight away, but can be extended with additional plugins.
For installation details on any distribution, see Infrastructure Agent Installation.
Warning
We do not recommend manually installing or upgrading the Infrastructure Agent on servers which run Opsview Monitor itself, as these already have packages managed by Opsview Deploy.