https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/disabled-nic-agents-on-hp-system-management-homepage/m-p/4606711#M659 I use simple loop-back connectors to keep the agent happy. By simple I mean they are not fully wired so the port negotiates to 100 MegaBit/sec only which helps me to see which is in production and which is not. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:11:40 GMT Uwe Zessin 2010-03-25T07:11:40Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/disabled-nic-agents-on-hp-system-management-homepage/m-p/4606710#M658 I have 5 ESX 4.0 servers running in a cluster. Each server has a total of 6 Ethernet NICs but I'm only using 4 NICs. Because of this, the local System Management Homepage is reporting an alarm on those 2 interfaces and it is consequently showing up in the HP Systems Insight Manager server.<BR /><BR />Is there a way to disable the agent for these two specific NICs? I know that on a Windows Server this can be done from the HP Management Control Panel, but I can't seem to find a way to do it on and ESX host. Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:46:43 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/disabled-nic-agents-on-hp-system-management-homepage/m-p/4606710#M658 Omid Boloori 2010-03-24T23:46:43Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/disabled-nic-agents-on-hp-system-management-homepage/m-p/4606711#M659 I use simple loop-back connectors to keep the agent happy. By simple I mean they are not fully wired so the port negotiates to 100 MegaBit/sec only which helps me to see which is in production and which is not. Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:11:40 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/disabled-nic-agents-on-hp-system-management-homepage/m-p/4606711#M659 Uwe Zessin 2010-03-25T07:11:40Z