Setting up Agent Collector

Introduction

Nanitor offers collectors to analyze assets that don't support agents. Those come in two flavors:

• Independent Collector, See Collector Setup
• Agent-Based Collector as explained in this article.

The main difference is how they are installed and maintained. The independent Collector is set up manually and updated manually. The Agent-Based Collector is set up automatically by the agent and kept up to date by the agent as well. In either case, the same binary is used and thus exactly the same feature set is available. Once the agent is set up there is zero difference between the two. Nanitor recommends the Agent-Based Collector due to how simple it is to set up and maintain.

Setting up Agent-Based Collector

Start by signing into Nanitor and going into the Management screen by clicking on your name in the top right corner

There click on Collectors

There click on the three dots near the top right corner of your screen and click "Add Collector"

Come up with a good name for your collector (I did "My Demo Collector", yours should be better), then put in the name of the asset you want to install a collector on (nandmem-04 in my example).

You have now successfully installed a collector on the specified asset. After a few minutes, your collector will show as connected and you can start specifying assets it should be collecting on.