Users Guide

Agent-free Monitoring Feature
Agent-free monitoring feature provides detailed inventory and monitoring of Dell PowerEdge servers (12th generation of Dell
PowerEdge servers or later) through the server's iDRAC; using WSMAN and SNMP.
Dell Server Management Pack Suite installer automatically imports the Agent-free monitoring feature if the prerequisites are
met.
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 10. 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 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 11. Dell Hardware discovery and grouping
Group Diagram View Hardware Type
Dell Servers Dell Monolithic Servers
Dell Modular Servers
Dell Sled Group
Dell PowerEdge systems.
Dell PowerVault storage servers.
Dell Rack Workstation Rack Workstation Diagram Dell Precision Racks
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