NetXMS Support Forum

Hello,

I have a some powershell scripts which i use on windows agents by the ExternalParameter or ExternalList-options. This works quite well, but currently I copy these scripts manually to the agents data folder.
Is it possible that that agent automatically loads additional files in its data folder? I guess the configuration poll hook would be a good place for such an "action", but I can't find any info how to upload or download a file to the agent by NXSL.
Or is there even a simpler method to copy files from server to agent for some library files?

Regards,
Ben

Hi,

I'm currently struggling about monitoring clusters.
For example I'd like to add a cluster container with some Hyper-V cluster nodes. On the cluster "Last Values" tab I'd like to have the CPU usage of all virtual machines hosted by the cluster. Intuitively I'd like to add each virtual machine to the cluster's resources, but here starts my problem: I guess cluster resources are assigned to cluster nodes by MAC address match? I don't know how to do that with virtual machines...
My wish would be that the owner of cluster resources can be assigned by script execution, not only by virtual IP. It would be easy to determine the hosting cluster node of a virtual machine by a wmi query. Also there would be may more possibilities using cluster resources, which currently I rarely use...

I'm currently thinking about using NetXMS for centralized package management. My idea is to collect information of some client based package manager like chocolatey under Windows or apt under Linux and control the packages in NetXMS. I'm talking about smaller networks which don't need a full-blown software distribution solution, just a simple possibility for installing, uninstalling and updating packages on some or all systems in the network.

For that purpose some additions in management console and agent would be helpful:
- I think NetXMS shouldn't reinvent something new for what concerns the actual package management on the client. A generic interface (in form of some additional config parameters in the agent configuration) would be enough, calling external commands for collecting installed packages, installing a package, updating etc. This can already be done using config parameters ExternalList or ExternalParam.
- A policy for software packages like the existing one for agent configuration, which automatically installs and updates the defined packages on nodes. Maybe right now possible using actions and some external scripts, but I definitivly don't want to do that.
- A few overviews which show the actual package status on one and many nodes. I don't think this is possible right now.
- Some context menu options for quick install and uninstall would be nice. Available through object tools at the moment.

What do you think?