Considerations for choosing HP Agentless Management

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Table 1: Information provided by Agentless Management and Insight Management Agents
OS-based Agents Agentless Management
Insight Management Agents Agentless Management without
AMS
Agentless Management with AMS
Server Health
– Fans
– Temps
– Power supplies
– Memory
– CPU
– Fans
– Temps
– Power supplies
– Memory
– CPU
– Fans
– Temps
– Power supplies
– Memory
– CPU
Storage
– Smart Array
– SAS/SATA HBA/RAID
– Fibre Channel / iSCSI
– SMART drive monitoring
(connected to Smart Array
and SAS HBA)
– Tape
– External storage
– Smart Array
– SMART drive monitoring
(connected to Smart Array)
– Internal HDDs connected to
Smart Array
– Smart Array
– iSCSI SAS/SATA HBA*
– SMART drive monitoring
(connected to Smart Array
and SAS HBA)
– Internal HDDs connected to
Smart Array
NIC
– MAC and IP addresses for
standup and embedded NICs
– Teaming information
– Link up/down traps
– VLAN information
– MAC Addresses for embedded
NICs
– MAC and IP address for
embedded NICs
– Link up/down traps*
Other
– OS information (host MIB)
– iLO data
– Performance data
– User configurable thresholds
– Logging events to OS logs
– Clustering information
– iLO data
– Firmware inventory
– iLO data
– OS information (host MIB)*
– Firmware inventory
– Driver/Service inventory
– Logging events to OS logs**
* Denotes that the data supplied by Agentless Management is not as extensive as the data supplied by the SNMP Agents.
** With iLO 4 v1.10 firmware, we’ve enabled AMS-based OS logging for Linux (var/message/log), Solaris, and VMware. We’ve included
Windows in upcoming releases.
Using Agentless Management with a combination of AMS, HP Insight
Management Agents and/or WBEM providers
The AMS can run concurrently with our OS-based management software, but we recommend running only one: either
AMS or our OS-based management software. Running both concurrently consumes more memory and processor cycles.
In addition, using both Agentless Management and the SNMP agents may result in different alerts or duplicate alerts in
HP SIM 7.
If HP SIM 7 identifies that Agentless Management is in use, HP SIM first gathers data from the iLO Management Engine. If
the iLO Management Engine and agents and providers are monitoring a particular component, HP SIM may receive
duplicate data, a subset of data, or a superset of data for that component.
To eliminate duplicate monitoring, perform either of the following procedures:
• Stop or uninstall the Agentless Management Service. Stopping the Agentless Management Service stops the service
until you reboot the server. Rebooting re-enables the service.
• Uninstall the agents or providers by using the install or remove software tool available in your OS.