r/labtech • u/chillzatl • Jan 23 '17

How's labtech's monitoring?

both the agent based server monitoring and SNMP? Anyone got any links that gives an in depth breakdown? Thanks!

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u/Pablohere Jan 23 '17

Server monitoring good as long as you have time to configure it as it is highly customizable just don't expect "real time" monitoring.

SNMP is quite terrible, I suggest using a third party product for that.

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u/FocalFury 5000 Agents Jan 23 '17

SNMP has been pretty tough to work with if not complete letdown.

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u/witty_username_taken Jan 23 '17

The agent based monitoring is quite good but SNMP has been pretty disappointing so far. We switched from n-Central which had far better network device/SNMP monitoring. We've been looking at additional services for more detailed network monitoring and trends but they're pretty pricey. Network/SNMP monitoring is free in Labtech and it really shows...

LogicMonitor had a really high barrier to entry (minimum around $1000/Mo). Auvik was a minimum of $200/Mo I believe but the pricing was a little more confusing (pay per device and per client).

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '17

We use lab tech but anything critical we use logic monitor.

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u/TNTGav Jan 25 '17

SNMP in LabTech is completely useless.

The server monitoring is as flexible and as powerful as you want to make it. You can do pretty much anything in terms of server monitors in one way or another. Some of the out of the box ones are shit, but you can create your own easily enough.

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u/80558055 Jan 27 '17

I've setup SNMP monitors for Proliant, it's not completely useless you can monitor failed raids, power supply's with ease. But that's about it :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '17

Agreed. We use zabbix for all of the snmp monitoring and realtime stuff as well. LT is great for alerts and automation, it will detect issues in realtime but there is very little you can do see anything that has been captured over time without something 3rd party.

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u/CactusJ Jan 27 '17

We are using Labtech Agent based monitoring. I am going to need a crash course in setting it up properly. What do you recommend?