Modifying an agent

Modifying the ITRS Infrastructure Agent Copied

The ITRS Infrastructure Agent is the recommended monitoring agent to use. It comes with a set of default plugins to monitor many aspects of your devices, and it also supports adding custom plugins. For further details, see the Configuration page of Infrastructure Agent.

Assuming a new agent command check_example is added, do the following steps in the Opsview Monitor UI:

UI configuration Copied

  1. Add a new Service Check with the following configuration:
Name: Custom Check
Plugin: check_nrpe
Parameters: -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_example -a '<plugin arguments>'
  1. Add this Service Check to the Host you wish to monitor and click Apply Changes to bring the configuration into use.

Opsview Agent Linux: Adding a custom plugin Copied

Opsview Agent

The Opsview Agent is still supported, but we recommend that new customers and existing customers deploying new monitoring use the ITRS Infrastructure Agent instead. Please follow the preceding instructions for the latest information on the ITRS Infrastructure Agent.

To view information about the Opsview Agent, you can refer to the Opsview documentation version 6.8.4 or earlier.

["Opsview On-Premises"] ["User Guide"]

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