Probes Requiring The Daemon; Installing The Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon - Red Hat NETWORK SATELLITE 5.1.1 Reference Manual

Chapter 7. Monitoring

7.2.1. Probes requiring the daemon

An encrypted connection, either through the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon or sshd, is required
on client systems for the following probes to run:
• Linux::CPU Usage
• Linux::Disk IO Throughput
• Linux::Disk Usage
• Linux::Inodes
• Linux::Interface Traffic
• Linux::Load
• Linux::Memory Usage
• Linux::Process Counts by State
• Linux::Process Count Total
• Linux::Process Health
• Linux::Process Running
• Linux::Swap Usage
• Linux::TCP Connections by State
• Linux::Users
• Linux::Virtual Memory
• LogAgent::Log Pattern Match
• LogAgent::Log Size
• Network Services::Remote Ping
• Oracle::Client Connectivity
• General::Remote Program
• General::Remote Program with Data
Note that all probes in the Linux group have this requirement.

7.2.2. Installing the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon

Install the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon to prepare systems for monitoring with the probes
Section 7.2.1, "Probes requiring the daemon". Note that the steps in this section
identified in
are optional if you intend to use sshd to allow secure connections between the RHN monitoring
Section 7.2.3, "Configuring SSH"
infrastructure and the monitored systems. Refer to for instructions.
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