HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers

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Figure 9: This is a comparison of the server health data supplied by the SNMP Agents and the data supplied
using Agentless Management. Asterisks indicate areas where SNMP Agents deliver a more extensive set of data
than the Agentless Management.
Based on the server data that you need to monitor, there are several specific situations when you
should install the agents if you are managing a ProLiant Gen8 server using HP SIM 7.0 or HP Insight
Control 7.0. They include:
 When you need to monitor server performance using HP Insight Control Performance
Management
 When you need to monitor HP storage devices other than the HP Smart Array controller
 When you use a third-party SNMP product, such as Computer Associates or Tivoli
 When you need to monitor additional MIBs for the server, including the full MIB2, RFC1514 Host
Resource MIB, MSFT LANMAN MIB, or VMware MIB.ost agents
 When you want to use a system health threshold for disk or processor utilization
Conclusion
The HP Insight Management Architecture for Windows servers offer you a robust solution for
monitoring and managing HP ProLiant servers. It provides SNMP-based system management that
integrates into the HP SIM solution framework. It is also more secure than traditional SNMP
management solutions. Although HP introduced WBEM-based Providers as an alternative client-side
management solution, we continue to support the Insight Management Agents. We support the
SNMP Agents across the ProLiant server line, including ProLiant 100-series servers and the ProLiant
Gen8 servers.