network monitoring of firewalled/NAT'd systems
Joshua Judson Rosen
rozzin at geekspace.com
Tue May 18 21:19:08 EDT 2010
"Michael ODonnell" <michael.odonnell at comcast.net> writes:
>
> I wrote:
> > We want to monitor (from a central server at HQ) the health and
> > performance status of multiple machines [mostly Windows >-( ] at
> > each of multiple customer sites despite them being NAT'd/firewalled.
>
> ...and then mentioned a bunch of features we're dreaming about.
>
> A more specific question: does anybody even know of a package that
> can do "passive monitoring"? IOW, in our scenario some sort of
> agent on each workstation would be responsible for initiating a
> connection to HQ and pushing its own monitoring data back to our
> central server since we'd not be able to initiate connections in
> the other direction as they'd be blocked at the customer's firewall.
Anything that uses SNMP traps?
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