Introduction to server monitoring, and supported server hardware

Introduction

Hardware monitoring

OS monitoring

GPU monitoring

To add a server monitoring device to my network

Introduction

Entuity supports server hardware monitoring, server OS monitoring, and server Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) monitoring.

Hardware monitoring

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 through 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

GPU monitoring

Entuity provides in-band and out-band monitoring of the GPUs inside your managed servers. GPU monitoring is performed either through vendor command-line tools run over SSH (for in-band monitoring) or through server hardware collectors (for out-band monitoring).

Entuity supports monitoring of GPUs from the following vendors:

• AMD
• Intel
• Nvidia

See this article for more information on GPU monitoring.

To add a server device to my network:

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