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4 months ago
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Linux Collector setup

HI fellow monitor champs I have a question regarding installing linux collectors. Our engineers are complaining that they cant detect the collector when installing and adding it to the portal. So t...
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    Joe_Williams
    3 months ago

    This is all covered on basic training of the platform.

    Best practices would be determined by your organization.

    Credentials are inherited so you could set them on a folder and each device would inherit them if they are the same creds. This is the general practice by a lot of LogicMonitor use cases. You can also override those at a device level.

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4 months ago

Hi Mike thank you for your reply.

The problem that is encountered by a lot of engineers are asking me questions about the best-practices. On what level should we enter the credentials, does collected devices need a startup, can we use the same credentials... This is something i would like to be secure and stable in future deployments. 

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Joe_Williams
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3 months ago

This is all covered on basic training of the platform.

Best practices would be determined by your organization.

Credentials are inherited so you could set them on a folder and each device would inherit them if they are the same creds. This is the general practice by a lot of LogicMonitor use cases. You can also override those at a device level.