While it's likely overkill, since its free you might look at Spiceworks. If you
add the renewals, etc., as vendors you can define renewal frequency, etc., and
it'll give you alerts beforehand. You don't have to use all the other stuff.
There's even a free hosted version but I don't know if that supports all the
stuff the on-premise install does.
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jonathan Raper
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:18 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Reminders for SSL certs (and other things)
Thanks, but this ISN'T just about certs. Monitoring is not the solution I am
looking for. We're also looking to manage reminders for non technical items,
like other renewals, contracts, etc.
Jonathan
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neil Standley
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 12:03 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Reminders for SSL certs (and other things)
The PRTG free license comes with 100 sensors, and if you're monitoring Windows
boxes you can install remote probes to monitor all sorts of things. Otherwise
you can monitor using SNMP.
You just need a system to run it and access to the resource you wish to monitor.
Neil Standley
Cascadia Infotek
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Raper
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 8:45 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Reminders for SSL certs (and other things)
Unfortunately it is not that simple. Multiple sites, and some are internal
certs for dev environments, some are on network equipment that is internal, one
is on a hosted environment in a co-lo that is purely internal, but we don't
manage the system, only the cert....
And we have a management system in place (Zenoss), and 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....
Thanks,
Jonathan
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 9:20 AM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Reminders for SSL certs (and other things)
You might look at how you could centralize where these certs are installed
(e.g. a load balancer/reverse proxy) so you only have one place to check as
opposed to having things scattered around.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132
From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Raper
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:40 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [NTSysADM] Reminders for SSL certs (and other things)
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....
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?
Thanks,
Jonathan
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