What's New in Infrastructure Agent

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This page contains the list of all highlights that have recently been introduced in Infrastructure Agent.

For detailed release notes for all versions of Infrastructure Agent, see Infrastructure Agent 1.x Release Notes.

For more information on configuration, installation, and usage, please refer to the ITRS Infrastructure Agent documentation.

Note

The Opsview Agent is still supported, but we recommend that new and existing users deploying new monitoring use the ITRS Infrastructure Agent instead. The Opsview documentation version 6.8.4 or earlier remains a resource for Opsview Agent information.

Infrastructure Agent 1.1 Copied

These are the highlights of this release:

• The Infrastructure Agent documentation now includes a list of plugins available in the Linux and Windows builds of the Infrastructure Agent, along with their corresponding help text.
• An alias has been created for all nsc_* plugins. This change also renamed the nsc_checkcpu plugin to checkcpu. See the following updates in the Configuration and Installation and operation documentations.
• The Infrastructure Agent included in this release is version 1.1.35674.

Infrastructure Agent 1.0 Copied

These are the highlights of this release:

• The ITRS Infrastructure Agent has successfully passed beta testing and can now be used as a stable alternative to the Opsview and NSClient agents. We recommend that new and existing users use the ITRS Infrastructure Agent for new monitoring deployments, even though the Opsview Agent is still supported and available.
• You can download pre-built packages of the Infrastructure Agent from the Agents Downloads website, or you can build the agent from source on ITRS Infrastructure Agent GitHub.

For more information, see ITRS Infrastructure Agent documentation.

The ITRS Infrastructure Agent is a new way to monitor your IT infrastructure. It can be installed on servers running on either Windows or Linux systems. Additionally, it offers a number of advantages over the existing agents, including:

• Easy to install and configure. There are multiple ways to install the agent on Linux systems, including using RPM, DEB, building from source, or downloading it directly from the Agents Downloads website. On Windows systems, the agent can be installed using MSI packages. The Infrastructure Agent can be used on monitored hosts with older Opsview versions, even if you do not upgrade to the latest version. However, we recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of Opsview to ensure that all changes, including security fixes and new features, will work correctly with the Infrastructure Agent.
• Highly flexible. The Infrastructure Agent can be used to monitor a wide range of systems. It can be extended with additional plugins from third-party sources or developed in-house, making it even more versatile.
• Enhanced security. Encrypted traffic and certificate usage are now enforced by default, which helps to protect the privacy and integrity of data transmitted between the agent and the monitoring server. Additionally, the agent will create self-signed certificates upon installation if no certificates have been created by the user, which makes it easier to get started with the agent. Finally, new and more secure ciphers have been added to the agent, which further enhances its security.
• Performance improvements. The new agent performs significantly better than the previous Opsview Agents on both Linux and Windows systems. This means that the agent can now handle queries more quickly and at a shorter interval without using more system resources.
• Convenient migration. The Infrastructure Agent can import configuration from the old Opsview Agents, which means that your settings for allowed hosts, port numbers, and command configuration will be imported into the new agent. This makes migrating from the old agent to the new agent much easier.
• UTF-8 support. The new agent now supports UTF-8 characters in plugin output.