Users Guide

Agent-free Monitoring Feature
Agent-free monitoring feature supports the discovery, and monitoring of Dell PowerEdge monolithic and modular servers, Dell PowerVault
storage servers, and supported Dell Precision Racks using WSMAN and SNMP.
Topics:
• Comparison of Scalable and Detailed Edition Features
• Discovery and Grouping
• Monitoring
• Dell Unit Monitors for Agent-free Monitoring Feature
• Rules
• Tasks
Comparison of Scalable and Detailed
Edition Features
The following table helps you understand the environment in which you can use Scalable and Detailed Edition features.
Table 8. Scalable Management Pack Versus Detailed Management Pack
Features Scalable Edition Detailed Edition
Agent-free Monitoring
• Inventory up to individual components.
• Health monitoring at server, Rack
Workstation and component group level.
• Inventory and health monitoring of
individual components.
• View metrics for power, temperature, and
network interface cards, processor,
memory, CUPS (Compute Usage per
Second), PCIe SSD wear percentage and
IO performance metrics.
Discovery and Grouping
The Dell Server Management Pack Suite version 6.0 enables you to discover and classify Dell servers.
The following table lists the details of the hardware discovery and grouping by the Dell Agent-free monitoring feature.
Table 9. Dell Hardware Discovery and Grouping
Group Diagram View Hardware Type
Dell Servers Dell Monolithic Servers
Dell Modular Servers
Dell PowerEdge systems.
Dell PowerVault storage servers.
Dell Rack Workstation Rack Workstation Diagram Dell Precision Racks
Discovering a Dell Server Using Agent-free Monitoring
Feature
NOTE:
The Microsoft SMASH Library (MPB) file has to be installed. For information on installing the Microsoft SMASH
Library (MPB) file, see the "Installing the WS-Management and SMASH Device Template" section of the Dell Server
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