Applicable to Entuity v23.0 GA upwards.
Entuity Agent recommended requirements
Recommended resource requirements
Number of managed assets per agent
Monitor remote locations or customer environments
Entuity Agent recommended requirements
You can use Entuity Agents to monitor servers, operating systems, storage devices, and databases in your network. To run Entuity Agents on a server, the server must meet certain operating system (OS), resource, and firewall port requirements.
Entuity Agent monitoring is only certified for use with the 64-bit English edition variants of:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 9
- Oracle Linux 8
- Oracle Linux 9
- Windows Server 2019
- Windows Server 2022
- Windows Server 2025
Entuity recommends the following server specifications to run an Entuity Agent.
| Server Component | Specification |
|---|---|
| Minimum CPU Clock Speed | 2.5GHz |
| Intel Processor Family (or equivalent) | Xeon 5000 Sequence |
| Minimum Number of Cores | 2 |
| Windows Minimum Physical Memory | 4 GB |
| Linux Minimum Physical Memory | 4 GB |
| Disk Capacity | 100 GB |
Based on the recommended resource requirements, each Entuity Agent can monitor up to 100 managed assets.
Note, managed assets refers to Server and Storage device types. Currently, network devices are not supported for agent-based monitoring.
The agent must have connectivity to the Entuity Server on port 443 as well as these required ports to connect to the devices it will be monitoring:
- 161 (SNMP)
- 443 (HTTPS/REST)
- 22 (SSH)
- 5989 (WBEM)
Entuity Agents can improve the monitoring of various server and storage devices within your network, and can improve the scalability of your Entuity architecture. The following common use cases describe how you can implement Entuity Agents in your environment.
You can install an Entuity Agent directly onto a Windows or Linux server to locally monitor the OS. This simplifies the configuration of the servers, as once the agent is set up, you can then select the new OS monitoring option for Windows OS (local) or Linux OS (local). The new OS monitoring option requires only the name of the agent doing the monitoring. It does not require Administrator or root level credentials to monitor the operating system in a secure fashion.
For more information about installing Entuity Agents, please see this article for Windows and this article for Linux.
For information about Agent-Local OS monitoring, please see this article.
An Entuity Agent can monitor up to 100 servers, storage arrays, or databases (based on the recommended resource requirements) directly. The agent can then propagate the results up to the Entuity server to which the agent is registered. Entuity servers can have multiple agents registered, which then increases the total amount of devices that an Entuity server can monitor. When an agent reaches its limit, you can configure other agents to monitor these devices for the same server, rather than needing to add an additional server to the Entuity environment.
Agents are lightweight, allowing more flexibility of server and resource requirements to monitor the environment.
Entuity servers can support multiple agents, as long as the server is sized to handle the sum of devices managed by the agents, so that each remote location can have an agent set up that will then monitor the devices. As the assets are managed by the agent, assets can be searched based on the agent to which the assets are connected, and views can be set up, per agent, for ease of visualization.
If the agent is able to connect to the Entuity server, the agent can be set up in an air-gapped/sandbox environment to monitor devices easily. An agent can also use a proxy between the agent and the registered Entuity server. For information about using a proxy with an Entuity Agent, see this article for Windows or this article for Linux.
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