HP Insight Remote Support and Insight Online Setup Guide for HP ProLiant Gen8 Servers and HP BladeSystem c-Class Enclosures

A Using AMS
With iLO 3 and earlier, SNMP management used the HP Insight Management Agents running on
the server operating system. With iLO 4, you can use either Agentless Management or the Insight
Management Agents. The default configuration is to use Agentless Management.
iLO 4 Agentless Management uses out-of-band communication for increased security and stability.
With Agentless Management, health monitoring and alerting is built into the system and begins
working the moment a power cord is connected to the server. This feature runs on the iLO hardware,
independent of the operating system and processor. Additional operating system data is collected
when AMS is installed.
Table 4 (page 54) provides a comparison of the information provided by the different HP ProLiant
Gen8 server configurations.
Table 4 Information provided by Agentless Management and Insight Management Agents
Insight Management Agents
1
Agentless Management with
AMS
1
Agentless Management without
AMS
Component
Server health
• Fans• Fans• Fans
• ••Temperatures TemperaturesTemperatures
•• •Power suppliesPower supplies Power supplies
••• MemoryMemoryMemory
• ••CPU CPUCPU
Storage
• Smart Array• Smart Array• Smart Array
• ••SMART Drive Monitoring SMART Drive MonitoringSMART Drive Monitoring
•• •Internal hard drives attached
to Smart Array
Internal hard drives attached
to Smart Array
Internal hard drives attached to
Smart Array
•• HBAHBA
• Fibre Channel and iSCSI
• Tape
• External storage
• MAC addresses for embedded
NICs
NIC
• Standup and embedded• Standup and embedded
• •MAC and IP address MAC and IP address
•• Link up/Link down trapsLink up/Link down traps
• Teaming information
• VLAN information
Other
• iLO data• iLO data• iLO data
• ••Firmware inventory Operating system information
(host MIB)
Firmware inventory
• Operating system information
(host MIB)
• Performance data
• •Driver/service inventory Configurable thresholds
• Logging events to operating
system logs
• Clustering information
Pre-Failure Warranty
Alerts
• Memory• Memory• Memory
• ••Drives (physical and logical) Drives (physical and logical)Drives (physical and logical)
• CPU
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