[ale] Hardware monitoring
Jim Popovitch
jimpop at yahoo.com
Mon May 22 21:55:04 EDT 2006
Christopher Fowler wrote:
> NetCool does this right? Does it install an agent on each server?
Yes, Netcool does this, and Yes it involves a local agent. Specifically
it is the Netcool/SSMs (System & Service Monitors). There is also SSM
Ops (or whatever name they are calling it these days) which is the
centralized operations server (accessed via a webbrowser) that is used
to centrally manage all the distributed agents. These agents can
co-exist or replace the native SNMP agent on the host, and they can
provide similar functionality as an SNMP agent would (i.e. you can poll
the SSM agent with snmpget/walk/set/etc.) The Netcool/SSMs are very
powerful agents that can do a host of things,
Micromuse, the Netcool company, was recently acquired by IBM. Google
for "Netcool/SSM" for more info. You can email me privately if you want
more info, I don't work on the sales team. ;-)
-Jim P.
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