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ProfessorI completely agree. I don't really like making so many changes to a customer's environment to bring in monitoring. The good thing about being agent-less is not having to touch and modify each system being monitored. And it's good for network and equipment, but in the case of Windows least-priv you end up touching all of them anyway so not getting much benefits from it.
Having a Windows agent would be a great option. I have used nano collectors in the past in some situations like an agent, but it's not ideal. It's not very light weight and the LM portal isn't really designed with that setup in mind.
AdvisorAgree that installing collector on individual monitored servers aren't the answer. It does seem too heavy for monitoring just itself - even the nano version. We've previously used it on Domain Controllers and it was by far the largest consumer of memory on the box. Customers generally aren't happy to allow outbound Internet access from all their servers (although granted, it is one endpoint and over HTTPS).
We have a bunch of customers moving over from an old SCOM environment where there is an agent on each box, and a gateway that acts as a collector and forwards the data into SCOM. That would be a great pattern to be able to follow with LM as it would really simplify windows monitoring.
