Compaq ML370 manual Compaq Insight Management Software Architecture, Insight Management Agents

3-68Compaq ProLiant ML370 Maintenance and Service Guide

■SNMP standards provide integration with other management products.

■Flexible network conductivity supports multiple transport protocols including IPX, TCP/IP and PPP to operator over LANs, WANs, and modems.

■Support for these operating systems:

❏Microsoft Windows NT

❏Novell NetWare, intranetWare and intranetWare for Small Business

❏SCO UNIX, OpenServer, and UnixWare

❏IBM OS/2 Warp family of products

■ReportingUsing Automatic Data Collection, gathers historic performance information for graphing or export purposes.

Compaq Insight Management Software Architecture

The Compaq Insight Management software architecture is typical of other network management solutions. It has a client/server architecture and is composed of agent software (Compaq Insight Management Agents) and the management application software (Compaq Insight Manager).

Insight Management Agents

Insight Agents operate on Compaq systems (such as servers and workstations), performing in-depth monitoring of the system’s state by collecting and measuring system parameters. These parameters indicate the current state of subsystems by counting the occurrence of particular events (for example, the number of read operations performed on a disk drive) or monitoring the state of a critical function (such as whether the cooling fan is operating).

Insight Desktop Agents operate on Compaq Deskpro computers, monitoring functions that include temperature sensing and disk prefailure alerting.

Insight Agents provide information to management applications, such as Compaq Insight Manager, and can generate alarm notifications if significant changes occur in the fault or performance aspects of system operation. Information is delivered to and from the Insight Agents by the industry-standard Simple Network Management Protocol or SNMP.

Compaq Insight Manager

Compaq Insight Manager delivers intelligent monitoring and alerting as well as visual control of the Compaq hardware. In the unlikely event of hardware failures, Compaq Insight Manager also provides a full complement of remote maintenance and control facilities.

For additional information, refer to the online Compaq Insight Manager User Guide on the server documentation CD that accompanied the server.