HP Integrity Servers Management Agents Overview v5.5

1 Introduction
HP Insight Management Agents enable you to view subsystem and status information from a
Web browser, either locally or remotely. You can access the HP Insight Management Agents
from both 32-bit systems and Integrity servers. To do this, you must have already completed the
following tasks:
• Installed TCP/IP
• Installed SNMP
• Configured SNMP
• Installed HP System Management Homepage
• Installed and activated the HP Insight Management Agents
For information on completing these tasks, see the HP Integrity Servers for Microsoft Windows 2003
Smart Setup Guide.
As part of the HP Insight Management Agent installation, the HP Management Agents Control
Panel applet and WebAgents are installed that enable you access the Management Agent
information using HP System Management Homepage (SMH). This chapter describes the
following:
• “HP Insight Management Agents” (page 7)
• “Using the System Management Homepage” (page 9)
HP Insight Management Agents
HP Insight Management Agents comprise the following:
• HP Insight Foundation Agents
• HP Insight Server Agents
• HP Insight NIC Agents
• HP Insight Storage Agents
• HP Insight Management Services
You can deactivate and activate the management agents from the HP Management Agents
Control Panel, accessible from Start>Control Panel>HP management Agents. For more
information, see the HP Integrity Servers for Microsoft Windows 2003 Smart Setup Guide.
The following sections describe the components of each agent.
HP Insight Foundation Agents
HP Insight Foundation Agents comprise the following:
Host Information Enables a sub-service that captures general information
about the host such as OS description, OS version, OS type,
crash dump state, CPU utilization, file system, physical
hardware mapping, software running, system status,
physical memory, platform type, and host GUID.
OS Information Enables a sub-service that captures operating system
information such as running processes, physical memory,
logical and physical disks, cache, paging file, processors,
and networking.
External Status Information Enables a sub-service that captures information about
external MIB.
Software Version Displays the versions numbers of HP system software
installed on the machine.
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