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Abstract.............................................................................................................................................. 2

Introduction to the Insight Management Agents architecture ...................................................................... 2

HP Insight Management agents ............................................................................................................. 4

Foundation agent............................................................................................................................. 4

Server agent.................................................................................................................................... 5

Storage agent.................................................................................................................................. 5

NIC agent....................................................................................................................................... 6

SNMP Services.................................................................................................................................... 7

Microsoft SNMP Agent Service.......................................................................................................... 7

Management Information Base .......................................................................................................... 7

Enhancing SNMP Security................................................................................................................. 7

Performing SNMP Sets...................................................................................................................... 8

Monitoring the server and delivering SNMP Traps ............................................................................... 8

Additional Insight Agents functionality.................................................................................................. 10

The HP Insight Event Notifier ........................................................................................................... 10

Process Monitoring......................................................................................................................... 11

The System Management Homepage framework ................................................................................... 13

System Management Homepage web server ..................................................................................... 13

System Management Homepage ..................................................................................................... 14

HTTPS, single sign-on, and secure task execution ............................................................................... 15

Replicate Agent Settings service....................................................................................................... 15

Considerations when installing and configuring the Insight Agents........................................................... 16

Updating Insight Management Agents .............................................................................................. 16

Understanding port use with Insight Management Agents and HP SIM ................................................. 16

Configuring the data collection interval............................................................................................. 16

Setting the server role ..................................................................................................................... 17

Additional support for Insight Management on HP ProLiant servers .......................................................... 18

HP Insight Management WBEM Providers......................................................................................... 18

Support for ProLiant 100-series servers ............................................................................................. 18

Conclusion........................................................................................................................................ 18

For more information.......................................................................................................................... 19

Call to action .................................................................................................................................... 19

HP Insight Management Agents architecture

for Windows servers

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