Installation (Smart Setup) Guide, Windows Server 2008, v6.1

D SMH and Management Agents
System Management Homepage (SMH), combined with HP Insight Management Agents, enable
you to view subsystem and status information from a Web browser, locally or remotely. You
can access HP Insight Management Agents from 32-bit systems and Integrity servers. To do this,
you must have completed the following tasks, described earlier in this document:
• Installed TCP/IP
• Installed SNMP
• Configured SNMP
• Installed HP System Management Homepage
• Installed the HP Insight Management Agents
As part of the HP Insight Management Agent installation, the HP Management Agents Control
Panel applet and WebAgents are installed that enable access to Management Agent information
using HP System Management Homepage (SMH).
HP Insight Management Agents
HP Insight Management Agents comprise the following:
• HP Insight Foundation Agents
• HP Insight Server Agents
• HP Insight Network Interface Card (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.
The following sections describe the components of each agent.
HP Insight Foundation Agents
HP Insight Foundation Agents comprise the following:
Host Information Enables a subservice 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 subservice that captures OS 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 version numbers of HP system software
installed on the machine.
Threshold Support Allows a management application, such as HPSIM, to set
user-definable alarms on monitored items (for example,
system processor utilization or file system utilization).
Host Remote Alert Enables a subservice that monitors registry keys updated
by Cluster, Performance, and Host information to verify
and notify when thresholds are reached.
Clustering Information Enables a subservice that captures information about a
configured cluster in the machine.
HP Insight Server Agents
HP Insight Server Agents comprise the following:
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