System information

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Storage Manager
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Maintenance
Webserver
STM Agents
OS Agents reside on operating systems and provide two functions.
• Agents gather asset, storage, performance and file information for that
device.
• Agents provide a platform to monitor applications or other devices that
reside on or are connected to that server.
For more information about installing agents see:
Installing Agents
Installing Agents on an Windows 2008 Cluster
SMI-S Requirments
Storage Manager uses the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)
standard to discover and manage some of the devices it supports.
To determine if your device requires an SMI-S Prvodier to be installed see
SMI-S Provider section.
For more inofrmation as to which devices require SMI-S to be installed see the
Provider Reference located.
http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/profiler/docs/SMISProvider.pdf