We have no desire to implement PRTG or Nagios, as we have a management system
in place (Zenoss). It does alert on some of the certs, but only if the device
is monitored/managed. Some devices we do not want monitored for various
reasons….but when the cert expires, it’s a problem. Unfortunately management
won’t justify the expense and overhead of 1-3 years of monitoring for an issue
that only crops up every 1 to 3 years….
I'm really looking for something like some kind of reminder system that we can
go in and add/remove/update items, seeing a list of all items, but then when
something comes up, we get an alert 3 weeks, 2 weeks, 1 week out, etc. and
something we can put other things in - like contract dates, equipment
acquisition dates, renewals, etc.
Thanks,
Jonathan
Thanks,
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Kurt Buff
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 7:47 PM
To: ntsysadm <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Reminders for SSL certs (and other things)
We use PRTG to monitor certs and send email alerts x number of days ahead of
expiration.
I'm not a huge fan of PRTG, but it does get the job done.
Kurt
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Jonathan Raper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> We’ve been bitten by an internal cert or two expiring that caught us
> off guard. We’re rying to come up with a way to have centrally
> managed reminder system in place to make sure this doesn’t happen
> again. This is for a large-ish network with a handful of people who
> could be managing this at any given time.
>
>
>
> An Excel spreadsheet just doesn’t scale well for this, and Outlook
> tasks seems kind of clumsy.
>
>
>
> Obviously paid certs you generally get a reminder because GoDaddy
> wants the revenue, and Web server certs generate an event in the event
> log, but not every SSL cert is going to generate an event…..and not
> every cert is a paid cert….
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>
>
> We also have some other events and contracts that we’d like reminders
> for – so this isn’t exclusive to SSL certs, though that is a driving factor.
>
>
>
> How are you all handling this? An application? A web-based “aaS”
> reminder system of some sort?
>
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>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
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