HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers

architecture. You can also install both WBEM Providers and Insight Agents on single managed server

if needed.

Support for ProLiant 100-series servers

Beginning with our G6 servers, the HP Insight Management Agents and HP SIM support ProLiant

100-series servers. Previously, ProLiant 100-series servers supported only the Intelligent Platform

Management Interface (IPMI) for system management. HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 provides full

integration with ProLiant 100-series G6 servers, including discovery and association with the Lights

Out 100 management processors on the servers.

Support for Insight Management Agents on ProLiant Gen8 servers

ProLiant Gen8 servers support the new Agentless Management model that is part of the iLO

Management Engine. With Agentless Management, iLO and iLO firmware monitor the health of

server and server components and supply this information directly to Insight Manager, including

Traps and Alerts. Agentless Management allows you to manage the server using HP Systems Insight

Manager without installing the SNMP agents. The new Agentless Management Service (AMS) is

software that you can install and use in conjunction with Agentless Management to deliver more

information about the server and the OS than with Agentless Management alone.

Although ProLiant Gen8 servers feature the new Agentless Management model, HP still supports the

Insight Management Agents on these systems. There are several reasons that you may want to

continue using the Insight Management Agents, including one or more of the following.

 Insight Management Agents support the collection and reporting of some data that HP does not

yet support with Agentless Management or with Agentless Management and AMS.

 You may want to stay with a single server management model in data centers with both Gen8

servers and older ProLiant servers.

Figure 9 shows the set of information that the SNMP Agents supply to Systems Insight Manager

compared to that of Agentless Management. SNMP Agents deliver more information than Agentless

Management, particularly for NICs and external storage.