I'm currently facing the challenge of monitoring remote networks for clients and reporting on any devices that go down. Right now, we use PRTG, but I'm hitting a wall with its performance limits regarding how many agents can run on a server core before it struggles. I'm testing Nagios XI, which has a lot of customization, but I'm finding the way to configure passive checks way more complicated than my team is used to. I'm looking for a solution that allows me to install an agent on a remote machine and manage the monitoring setup from the server side. I'd really appreciate it if the tool also provided an API for bulk creating sensors—dealing with 50+ ping sensors in PRTG manually was quite painful, so I even had to write a script to automate it based on an Excel sheet.
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I really like using Zabbix; it has extensive templates for easier management and monitoring. Have you tried it out yet?
Yeah, I started checking out Zabbix today. Is it capable of having a remote active agent that can ping local devices?