Introduction to server monitoring, and supported server hardware platforms

Introduction

Hardware

OS monitoring

To add a server monitoring device to my network

Introduction

From Entuity v19.0 upwards, Entuity supports server hardware monitoring and server OS monitoring.

Hardware monitoring

As of Entuity v23.0 P01, Entuity provides monitoring for the following hardware platforms:

• Cisco UCS
  • Cisco UCS C-Series (REST)
  • Cisco UCS CIMC Manager (SNMP)
  • Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect (SNMP)
  • Cisco UCS Manager (XML)
  • Cisco UCS Manager Chassis (XML)
• Dell CMC
  • Dell CMC (SSH)
• Dell MX
  • Dell MX Chassis (REST)
• Dell PowerEdge and VxRail iDRAC
  • Dell iDRAC (REST and SNMP
  • Dell OpenManage (SNMP)
• Fujitsu Primergy
  • Fujitsu Primergy (REST and SSH)
• GRC
  • GRC Systems Manager (REST)
• HP BladeSystem
  • HP BladeSystem (SNMP and SSH)
• HP Moonshot
  • HP Moonshot (REST)
• HP Proliant
  • HP iLO (REST and SNMP)
  • HP Insight Manager (SNMP)
• HP Superdome
  • HP Superdome (WBEM)
• HP Superdome Flex
  • HP Superdome Flex (REST)
• HP Synergy
  • HP Synergy (REST)
• IBM BladeCenter
  • IBM BladeCenter (SNMP and SSH)
• IBM Flex System
  • IBM/Lenovo CMM (WBEM)
  • IBM/Lenovo XClarity CMM (REST)
• IBM i
  • IBM OS400
• IBM Power
  • IBM Power AIX (SSH)
  • IBM Power Linux (SSH)
• IBM X-Series
  • IBM Director Agent (WMI)
  • IBM/Lenovo IMM (WBEM)
• Intel Servers
  • Intel Servers (REST)
• Lenovo ThinkServer
  • IBM/Lenovo XClarity IMM (REST and SNMP)
• Nvidia DGX-1
  • Nvidia DGX-1 (SSH)
• Oracle/Sun Servers
  • Oracle/Sun Blade Servers (SSH)
  • Oracle/Sun Servers ILOM (REST and SNMP) 
  • Oracle/Sun XSCF (SSH)
• Solaris
  • Solaris (SSH)
• Supermicro Servers
  • Supermicro BMC (REST)
  • Supermicro BMC Nutanix Prism (REST)
• VMWare ESXI
  • VMWare ESXI (WBEM)

OS monitoring

Entuity provides OS monitoring via SNMP (for managed hosts) and proprietary virtualization platform APIs (for ESXi, Hyper-V, Oracle VM, AWS and Azure).

Data collection on the following operating systems is also supported:

• HP-UX
• IBM AIX
• IBM i
• Linux
• Solaris
• Windows

To add a server device to my network:

Please see this article for more information on adding a server device to your network.