Is it possible to have BladeSystem Matrix solution without SNMP?

[chuckk281]

Hari had an interesting customer question on the use of SNMP for management:

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The customer is not too keen to use SNMP due to overloading his network with SNMP packets  and also due to security reasons.

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David replied:

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To say it a different way, HP SIM doesn't need to have any SNMP access to a virtual machine; it will get what it needs from WMI (Windows) and dmidecode over ssh (Linux)...

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Any other input for Hari??