Agentless Monitoring

To support environments where administrators may not be interested in deploying agents on every server, eG Enterprise offers an agentless monitoring option. A remote data collector - called the Remote Agent - can be deployed on a central server and using agentless interfaces (such as SNMP, NetBios/Perfmon, Secure Shell, etc.), the remote agent can collect statistics on a number of servers/applications without needing agents to be installed on each and every server. Details of the agentless monitoring approach and the tradeoffs in using agentless monitoring as compared to agent-based monitoring are explained in Agentless Monitoring.

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Typically, the remote agent should be installed and configured on the same operating system and locale as that of the servers that are monitored by that agent. In multi-lingual environments therefore, you would require a remote agent for every locale that is in use - for instance, in environments with servers that support both French and Japanese locales, you would require an exclusive remote agent for the French servers and another for the Japanese servers.