Getting an Insight Agent on a Workstation?

[Lisa Waters_1]

There are some servers in our environment running on workstation class machines. Are is their an insight agent out there that i can load onto these to commiunicate with HPSIM?

[OlivierV · Accepted solution]

Hi Lisa.

Server agents won't work because they need a management processor AFAIK. However you can install the workstation agents (even if it is not a HP workstation, I did it on Dell Optiplex.). But they won't provide as many information as a server agent can do.

These agents are not on the lastest SmatStart CDs, but you can find it on the Management CD 6.30 or look for SP22909.EXE at HP.

[Lisa Waters_1]

Were your machines running a server os?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftwareDownloadIndex?lc=en&cc=us&softwareitem=vc-10825-1

System Requirements-
Operating system(s): Microsoft Windows XP,Microsoft Windows 2000,Microsoft Windows 98,Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Download file size: 10.05M

We have Server2003 running.

[Igor Karasik]

Lisa, please see this thread:
http://forums2.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=634024

"First of all, the Insight agents for clients are end of life as of 12/03 and are no longer being updated. No work is going on to qualify them for use with hpSIM.

The prescribed method of desktop management is HP Client Manager: http://www.hp.com/go/easydeploy and in the future there will be a plug-in to link this with hpSIM."

[Lisa Waters_1]

Thanks for all of the info!