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OpsMgr: Why use Agentless monitoring?
Fellow MOM-MVP, Cameron Fuller, has written a blogpost about Agentless monitoring: "With all of the options available to monitor devices with OpsMgr 2007 why would you want to use Agentless monitoring? As a background, the recommended method to monitor Windows-based systems is by deploying the OpsMgr agent to the system. When an agent cannot be deployed to the system, your options include monitoring via SNMP, TCP Port, Ping, and third party vendor solutions (click here for background on monitoring network devices ) AND there is Agentless monitoring. So why use it? In what situations is Agentless monitoring the best available solution?
As Kerrie Meyler discusses in her article, I agree with her summary statement “For Operations Manager, agentless monitoring is recommended only when an agent-managed configuration is not possible.” I would recommend that you check out her article before reading through this." (more)