HP ProLiant DL380p HP Insight Management Agents architecture for Windows serve - Page 4

HP Insight Management agents The four HP Insight Management agents are the core of the architecture on managed servers. As a group, they are responsible for collecting all of the management information about the server and its software environment. As the information is collected, it is stored in the Windows Registry. Using SNMP protocol, Insight processes such as HP SIM server and the System Management Homepage (or other SNMP-based management tools) access this information and then display it to the user. Some of the Insight agents perform additional tasks within the Insight architecture, and these will be explained in the detailed discussion of each agent. Foundation agent The Foundation agent collects high-level system information about the managed server. As shown in Table 1, most of the information that the foundation agents collects comes from the Windows OS itself. This information is then stored in the Windows Registry as Management Information Base (MIB) information. Table 1. System information collected by the Foundation agent Information collected High-level server information (Host name, System role, OS installed) System Performance (OS statistics, CPU and memory utilization) File System information (Logical Drives, Drive utilization) HP software installed Clustering information Source Windows OS Windows OS Windows OS Windows Registry Windows OS In addition to collecting high-level system information, the Foundation Agent has additional roles. It is responsible for the low-level execution of all SNMP Sets within the Insight architecture. This is covered in greater detail in the section on SNMP Services. It also provides the HP Insight Event Notifier functionality. 4