HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers

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Figure 1: This is top-level overview of the HP Insight Management Agents architecture.
HP Insight Management agents
The four HP Insight Management agents make up the core of the architecture on managed servers.
As a group, they are responsible for collecting all of the management information about the server
and its software environment and storing the data in the Windows Registry. Using SNMP protocol,
Insight processes such as HP SIM server and the System Management Homepage (or other SNMP-
based management tools) access the information and display it to the user. Some of the Insight
agents perform additional tasks within the Insight architecture.
Foundation Agent
The HP Insight Foundation Agent collects high-level system information about the managed server.
As shown in Table 1, most of the information that the Foundation Agent collects comes from the
Windows OS itself. The Foundation Agent stores the information in the Windows Registry as
Management Information Base (MIB) data.