Monitoring ESXi Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) vs. Agentless management

chuckk281 — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:55:39 GMT

Question from Nick on management software for VMware:

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Can anyone confirm if there any differences in what is monitored with ESXi if we use the iLO and AMS vs. a direct WBEM discovery and subscription?

I know there are differences in Windows/Linux land with the AMS vs. Agents, but I can’t find anything to confirm this for ESXi.

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Info from Praveen:

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Below the comparison of the information provided by Agentless Management and the Insight Management Agents.

Table 1: Information provided by Agentless Management and Insight Management Agents.

Component	Insight Management Agents	HP Agentless Management without HP Agentless Management Service	HP Agentless Management with HP Agentless Management Service
Server health	Fans Temperatures Power supplies Memory CPU	Fans Temperatures Power supplies Memory CPU	Fans Temperatures Power supplies Memory CPU
Storage	Smart Array HBA Fibre Channel and iSCSI SMART Drive Monitoring Tape External storage	Smart Array SMART Drive Monitoring Internal hard drives attached to Smart Array	Smart Array HBA SMART Drive Monitoring Internal hard drives attached to Smart Array
NIC	Standup and embedded MAC and IP address Link Up/Down Teaming information VLAN information	MAC addresses for embedded NICs	Standup and embedded MAC and IP address Link Up/Down
Other	Operating system information (Host MIB) iLO data Performance data Configurable thresholds Logging events to operating system logs Clustering information	iLO data Firmware inventory	Operating system information (Host MIB) iLO data Firmware inventory Driver/Service inventory

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