To Agent or NOT to Agent?
Thoughts?
right now: agentless on windows, agent on linux
The windows agent doesn't really give me much that isn't available via WMI but doesn't have the same reliability as WMI
Linux net-snmp has a whole basket of problems that make the solarwinds agent preferable.
The new SAM 6.6 upgrade makes pretty awesome use of agents now. I'm really impressed.
Yeah, I was just discussing it with a client yesterday, SAM 6.6 does give the Windows agent something to potentially make it worth the hassle. I just had so many experiences with the agents becoming unresponsive under assorted circumstances that it has made me wary. I REALLY don't like to babysit my Solarwinds stuff. I suspect that if I put in some time I could script up an automated detection and response to agent failures so I could sleep at night.
