Configuring Ilo Management Settings; Agentless Management And Ams - NEC iLO 5 User Manual

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Configuring iLO management settings

Agentless Management and AMS

Agentless Management uses out-of-band communication for increased security and stability.
With Agentless Management, health monitoring and alerting is built into the system and begins
working the moment a power cord is connected to the server. This feature runs on the iLO
hardware, independent of the operating system and processor.
To collect information from devices and components that cannot communicate directly with iLO,
install the Agentless Management Service (AMS).
Table 2: Information provided by Agentless Management with and without AMS
Component
Server health
Storage
Network
Other
Prefailure
warranty alerts
1
AMS-based OS logging for Linux (/var/log/messages).
2
Smart Array logging is supported.
Agentless Management without AMS
• Fans
Temperatures
•
Power supplies
•
Memory
•
• CPU
NVDIMM
•
• Smart Array
SMART Drive Monitoring
•
(connected to Smart Array)
• Internal and external drives
connected to Smart Array
Smart Storage battery monitoring
•
(supported servers only)
• MAC addresses for embedded
NICs that support NC-SI over
MCTP
Physical link connectivity and link
•
up/ link down traps for NICs that
support NC-SI over MCTP
Fibre Channel adapters that
•
• iLO data support vendor- defined MCTP
• Firmware inventory
commands
Device inventory
•
• Memory
• Drives (physical and logical)
Additional information provided when
AMS is installed
• N/A
• SMART Drive Monitoring
(connected
to Smart Array, Smart HBA, and
•
AHCI)
• iSCSI (Windows)
NVMe drives
•
• MAC and IP address for standup
and embedded NICs
• Link up/link down traps
NIC teaming and bridging
•
information (Windows and Linux)
• Supported Fibre Channel
adapters
• OS information (host SNMP MIB) VLAN information (Windows and
•
• Driver/service inventory
Linux)
• Logging events to OS logs
• N/A
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