Considerations When Installing And Configuring The Insight Agents; Updating Insight Management Agents; Understanding Port Use With Insight Management Agents And Hp Sim; Configuring The Data Collection Interval - HP 407484-B21 - ProLiant Essentials Accelerated iSCSI Introduction Manual

Considerations when installing and configuring the Insight
Agents

Updating Insight Management Agents

In addition to the latest device drivers and utilities for HP ProLiant servers, the ProLiant Support Packs
contain updated Insight Management Agents. ProLiant Support Packs are developed and tested
concurrently with HP SmartStart releases. They provide a tested and trouble-free method for keeping
the Insight Agents on managed servers up to date.

Understanding port use with Insight Management Agents and HP SIM

The various software components that comprise the HP SIM environment use several different system
ports for communications. Table 5 lists the different ports used and the software components that use
them.
Table 5. HP SIM Port usage
System Port(s)
161, 162
2381
2301
50000
When using HP SIM as a management solution, it is important to keep these port addresses open
within the internal networks. Internal firewalls that block these ports can cause parts of HP SIM to
function improperly.

Configuring the data collection interval

The Insight Management Agents operate by collecting information on the managed server at regular
intervals. This is commonly referred to as polling. The Insight Agents Architecture allows an
administrator to configure how frequently the agents collect data from the managed server. The data
collection interval can be set from as short as every five seconds to once every hour.
Using a short data collection interval allows the agents to provide more frequently updated
information on the server, which may prove useful for closely monitored systems. However, a shorter
data collection interval consumes more system resources and could affect system performance at some
level. The recommended setting for the data collection interval is two minutes, which is also the default
value. Administrators can configure the data collection interval under the SNMP Settings tab of the
Management Agents configuration utility, from the SMH, or from HP SIM.
Usage
SNMP traffic between Microsoft SNMP Agent
Service and HP SIM server
Secure https link between SIM server and SMH
Framework
Used by SIM to identify managed servers in the
network
Serving web pages from HP SIM to the
management console browser
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