Tools you use to manage your stuff
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What tools, apps and services do you use to manage your infrastructure? (Note: This is not an advertising space. Referral links, blatant advertising, and other forms of taking advantage of this post will be strictly dealt with as per our guidelines and rules)
Where I work I use quite a number of tools, but here's my favorites:
- DNSControl (which I've done an entire guide about)
- PockEthernet (amazing ethernet testing tool)
- Netbox (DCIM and IPAM)
- Snipe-IT (inventory management)
- Intune, with WinGet App deployments (MDM solution)
- PowerShell 7 (notably for the ForEach-Object -Parallel functionality)
- Outline (documentation)
- ConnectWise (remote control, both internal and external customers)
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tankerkiller125 said in Tools you use to manage your stuff:
What tools, apps and services do you use to manage your infrastructure?
I'm a lover of Open Source, and use a LOT of Open Source tools within my business -
- rPort (for creating tunnels to access RDP, SSH, et al. Since it runs locally, you can IPTables down to localhost only being able to SSH into a device)
- RustDesk (Teamviewer replacement)
- Alpine Linux (for Docker hosts)
- Matomo (Analytics for websites, etc)
- LibreNMS (Network stats)
I need to move to DNSControl for DNS. DNS as Code is something I've wanted to move to for AGES because I just keep adding CNames. Bad thing to do.
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s3gunzel said in Tools you use to manage your stuff:
I need to move to DNSControl for DNS. DNS as Code is something I've wanted to move to for AGES because I just keep adding CNames. Bad thing to do.
Part 3 coming soon on the guide
but the first two parts should get you started.Also, any particular reason you use Matomo instead of something like Plausible?
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tankerkiller125 said in Tools you use to manage your stuff:
Also, any particular reason you use Matomo instead of something like Plausible?
It’s just what I settled on at the time.
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connectwise, remote utilities, nomachine. nomachine no good for domain controllers.
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s3gunzel said in Tools you use to manage your stuff:
RustDesk (Teamviewer replacement)
I would, but unfortunately given our client base something like RustDesk just simply doesn't work for them. (Major enterprises with major security hurdles just to get ConnectWise up and running)
@Buhaina-Buhaina said in Tools you use to manage your stuff:
nomachine.
Looks interesting, for Domain Controllers we use a VPN connection and I personally use mRemoteNG to manage all the connections to all our production stuff. We've been looking at Teleport more recently since it has screen recording features. But we haven't decided to implement or try it out yet.
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Teleport looks interesting as a selfhosted tool. Another selfhosted one I've been meaning to try for remote desktop is MeshCentral.
whoa mRemoteNG looks great
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tankerkiller125 said in Tools you use to manage your stuff:
I would, but unfortunately given our client base something like RustDesk just simply doesn't work for them.
Love that I get to turn those clients away. Use our tools for us to access your computers, or go away. Make it someone else's headache.
I don't generally need to do remote support. The relatively few clients that I have for remote support use what I tell them to. When explained that I don't need to pay "holy hell dollars" each month as a subscription, which drops the price of their service, they generally come round.
