Monitoring a Remote System or an External Device

By design and by default, Hardware Sentry KM monitors the hardware of the server it is running on, excluding any external parts that the system may see (like a disk in an external disk array). However, the KM can be configured to monitor a component that needs to be accessed through the network, or an external device like a storage array.

Configuring Hardware Sentry to monitor another system or external device remotely does not prevent it from monitoring the hardware of the local host where the KM is running. Once configured to monitor another system remotely, the KM will show two icons side-by-side in the PATROL Console: "Hardware on local host" and "Hardware on <RemoteSystem>".

Here are several typical scenarios where this mechanism will prove to be useful:

•Monitor the shared chassis of a group of blade servers

•Monitor the server itself through its out-of-band management card (which provides more information than the operating system in-band)

•Monitor a SAN switch, disk array or tape library, which the PATROL Agent and KM cannot be installed on

The licensing terms remain unchanged as to whether systems and devices are monitored locally or remotely.