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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
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.
Source
Windows OS
Windows OS
Windows OS
Windows Registry
Windows OS
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