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Agentless

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 1:36 pm
by srisurya
In nagios xi, what is the best way to monitor AIX without an agent ?

Re: Agentless

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 1:42 pm
by tmcdonald
You are pretty much limited to SNMP at that point, but even the SNMP listener is technically an agent.

Re: Agentless

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 7:53 am
by srisurya
Thanks for the response. and are you saying that there is no agentless monitoring for aix ?

Re: Agentless

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2016 9:36 am
by tmcdonald
I'm saying that if you have SNMP enabled you can use that, but there is technically no such thing as "agentless" monitoring since SNMP itself is acting as the agent in this case.