WatchZit 1.3.2 brings remote collectors, check templates, changes to many devices at once and web scenarios.
Install or update: VM images (OVA, qcow2, VHDX, ISO) or install.sh — see the README. A running console offers the update under Settings → Updates and server.
New
- Remote collectors: monitor networks the console cannot reach (a branch office, a site behind NAT). Install the agent on any computer there, click Use as a remote collector on its device page and choose it under Monitored from on the devices of that network. It runs their checks (ping, TCP, SNMP, web, DNS, certificates, databases, RouterOS, JSON) and sends the results over its encrypted connection. It needs no open port and has no web interface. If it goes offline, its devices show unknown, not down.
- Templates: a set of checks for a kind of device (a Linux server, a MikroTik router, a printer). Apply it to a device, a group or all devices of its kinds; new devices of those kinds can get it by themselves.
- Change selected: tick devices in the device list and change their group, SNMP profile, dependency, type, monitoring, template or collector at once, or delete them.
- Web scenarios: a check that goes through a web application step by step (sign in, open a page behind the sign-in, look for a text), keeping cookies between steps. The alert names the step that failed.
- Dependencies from the map: the Dependencies button on a map follows the cables from the main router and proposes what each device depends on.
- Traffic history of a cable: click a cable on a map to see its traffic both ways for the last hour, day, week or month.
- Triggers for one check: the bell next to a check on the device page adds a trigger just for it — for SNMP OID values such as temperatures and voltages, each with its own unit.
- Start page: choose a map or a dashboard to start on (My account → Start page).
