HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows servers

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Table 3: Storage information that the Storage Agent collects
Information collected
Source
Storage controller information
(firmware revision, battery status)
Controller firmware
Logical drive information
(fault tolerance, rebuild status)
Controller firmware
Physical Drive information
(size, speed, location, performance data, pre-failure)
Controller firmware
Drive firmware
Storage box infrastructure
(fans, power supplies, temperature)
Enclosure Services interface via controller
firmware
The Storage Agent and Insight Management Agents collect and report information on storage that
belongs to the single host server. The Insight Agents do not report on multi-host storage on the
network, such as SANs. This information is managed using WBEM-based Storage Management
Initiative Specification (SMI-S) Storage Providers. You can find additional information on HP support
for SMI-S at http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/smis.html.
NIC Agent
The HP Insight NIC Agent collects and stores information about the network controllers installed in
the managed server. The NIC Agent gathers some of the information through the NIC miniport
driver. The Windows OS collects other NIC information and stores it in MIB-II in the registry. Table 4
lists the categories and sources of information for the network controllers.
Table 4: Networking information that the NIC Agent collects
Information collected
Source
Adapter Information (firmware, speed, location, MAC)
MIB-II, Windows OS, NIC miniport
driver
Interface information (Interface name, IPv4 address)
MIB-II, Windows OS
Ethernet statistics
NIC miniport driver, Windows OS
NIC teaming configuration
Teaming intermediate driver
The SNMP Services component
The SNMP Services enable the flow of basic management information between the managed server
and HP SIM. These components process SNMP Gets and Sets, as well as the SNMP Traps used in
alerting.
Microsoft SNMP Agent Service
The Microsoft SNMP Agent Service provides the core set of SNMP services that the HP Insight
Management system uses on a managed server. This includes the following services: