Opsview monitoring agents extend the scope of data available from a host and provide an effective alternative to SNMP. A wealth of information is exposed relating to hardware, operating system and application performance.

Operating System Support

Monitoring agents are available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX and Novell Netware. A wide range of monitoring plugins are available for these platforms, common metrics include:

• CPU, memory and storage
• Network interface status and throughput
• Process and service status
• Hardware events
• Syslog events
• Windows WMI statistics
• Windows Event Log

Customisation

A major advantage of using Opsview monitoring agents over SNMP is the ease of customisation. Many organisations extend the monitoring agent to include their specific applications. Often this requires only minor changes to their existing monitoring scripts.

Agentless Operation

Opsview's architecture supports both agent-based and agentless operation.