monitoring inisight agents from the web

[james_Boomer]

I need to know I have 5 servers that are all at different locations. I have opened up the appropriate port on the firewall. And I want to monitor those 5 serves from a standalone workstation over the internet. Do I need to install the full insight manager on the workstation or is there some web agent that I can install and monitor just for pre-failure on those servers? Please help I’m fairly new to insight manage

[Ivan KOVAC]

Hello

You can install HP Insight Managament Agents on those servers and then manualy log into this agents from your standalone workstation http:\\servername:2301 and check for status of server.

If you want management capability and features of HP SIM, you must install HP systems insight manager. There is only full installation.

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[Rob Buxton]

There's a number of similar threads on the forum.
HPSIM could be installed at your local office, from there it depends on the functionality you want.

Ping will provide a simple up/dow reporting, allowing SNMP will provide device identification, allowing ports 2301 and 2381 will provide full HPSIM integration.

[David Claypool]

Opening ports in your firewall to expose the agents directly to the Internet is not recommended. The security implemented with the agents is pretty good, but not bullet-proof. The best practice in most situations would be to establish a VPN connection to get behind the firewall and then access the agent.