HP ProLiant BL660c HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 and HP Agentless Management - Page 2

Introduction Until now, HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) could only manage host systems using traditional management solutions that require SNMP Agents or WBEM (WMI) Providers. Now, HP SIM 7.0 lets you take advantage of the new HP Agentless Management features that are part of ProLiant Gen8 servers. The HP iLO Management Engine in HP ProLiant Gen8 servers incorporates HP Agentless Management, making the management of core hardware monitoring and alerting possible without SNMP Agents or WBEM (WMI) Providers installed on the host OS. Although HP Agentless Management is a great solution for the majority of ProLiant environments, certain usage scenarios may still require either SNMP Agents or WBEM (WMI) Providers. This document gives IT professionals who are familiar with HP SIM an overview of HP Agentless Management and how it works with HP SIM 7.0. It also includes information about when you may need to continue to use the SNMP Agents or WBEM (WMI) Providers for your management solution. For details about the iLO Management Engine, refer to the technology brief "HP iLO Management Engine technologies." It is available at http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c03207602/c03207602.pdf. Overview of HP Agentless Management ProLiant Gen8 servers include the iLO Management Engine, which provides HP Agentless Management. HP Agentless Management runs independently from the OS and collects data on core server components. You can view the data that the iLO Management Engine collects through either the web-based iLO 4 Graphical User Interface (GUI), the iLO XML scripting interface or through a remote management application, like HP SIM 7.0. To provide the complete HP Agentless Management solution, you can add the optional HP Agentless Management Service. The HP Agentless Management Service runs on the OS and gathers information that the iLO Management Engine does not obtain when an OS is running. The HP Agentless Management Service is a lightweight service that only communicates with the iLO Management Engine. It does not require an SNMP stack to be running on the host OS and it does not have an external interface. The HP Agentless Management Service provides the information it gathers to the iLO Management Engine. You can view the data that the HP Agentless Management Service and the iLO Management Engine collect through the iLO 4 GUI or HP SIM 7.0, as depicted in Figure 1. 2