What is agentless exception monitoring?
What is agentless exception monitoring?
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) is a component of the Client Monitoring feature in Operations Manager. AEM enables you to monitor operating systems and applications for errors within your organization. Operations Manager can then provide detailed views and reports on this consolidated error data.
What is agentless exception monitoring in SCOM?
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) redirects hardware, operating system, and application crash information to Operations Manager, which can aggregate, view, and report on error reports that are sent by the Windows Error Reporting service.
How does SCOM work?
SCOM uses agents installed on each system to check performance and collect data retrieved by the management server. For certain computers that cannot have an agent installed for various reasons, SCOM allows agentless monitoring for these machines through a proxy agent that runs on another system.
What is AEM in SCOM?
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) is an older technology which has been around since a few years now. First it started off as Desktop Error Monitoring as a part of the MDOP kit and later on it has been implemented into SCOM and since then it exists as a feature until SCOM 2012 SP1.
What is SCOM monitoring?
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a cross-platform data center monitoring system for operating systems and hypervisors. It uses a single interface that shows state, health, and performance information of computer systems.
CAN network devices be monitored by SCOM?
System Center Operations Manager can monitor physical network routers and switches, including the interfaces and ports on those devices, and the virtual local area networks (VLANs) and Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) groups that they participate in, as well as firewalls and load balancers.
What protocol does SCOM use?
SCOM Agent requirements and firewall ports…
| Name | Port Number | Protocol |
|---|---|---|
| RPC endpoint mapper | 135 | TCP/UDP |
| RPC/DCOM High ports (Win 2K/2K3 OS) | 1024-5000 | TCP/UDP |
| RPC/DCOM High ports (Win 2K8) | 49152-65535 | TCP/UDP |
| NetBIOS name service | 137 | TCP/UDP |
What is agentless exception monitoring (AEM)?
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) is a component of the Client Monitoring feature in Operations Manager. AEM enables you to monitor operating systems and applications for errors within your organization.
What is agentless monitoring and how does it work?
Agentless monitoring provides monitoring of computers without agents by using a proxy agent and applying those management packs that support agentless monitoring.
How do I monitor a computer without an agent in operations manager?
For information on AEM, see Client monitoring using Agentless Exception Monitoring in Operations Manager. You can monitor a computer without an agent by using either agentless monitoring, AEM, or both. Log on to the Operations console with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Administrators role for the management group.
Does a management server collect event descriptions for agentless-managed computers?
A management server will not collect descriptions for events or publishers that are present on an agentless managed computer but are not present on the proxy agent. For information about configuring an agent-managed computer as a proxy for agentless-managed computers, see How to configure a proxy for agentless monitoring.
