Users Guide

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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.
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 PowerEdge systems.
Dell PowerVault storage servers.
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