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Agent based or agentless collection at 200 servers?

asked by mbxsec 5 days ago

Agents mean deployment and updates. Agentless means firewall rules everywhere. Which is less painful in practice?

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vivida (David) 10 points 5 days ago

Both, and that is fine. Agentless for anything that already speaks syslog, agents where you need file tailing, buffering or local state.

Windows event logs and application log files both need an agent. Network gear and appliances cannot take one. Most estates end up mixed, and the mistake is picking one on principle then fighting it for two years.

shadepl 8 points 5 days ago

agents, but only if you already have config management. if deploying an agent is a manual job on 200 boxes you will have 160 running agents in a year and no idea which 40

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