Re: <Master Agent/subagent vs independent Agents>

On 14/12/06, Crouching Tiger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Considering both approaches:
>  several independent SNMP Agents,
>  and one Master Agent and several subagents;
>
> which one of them do you consider to be the best approach?

What information are you wanting to monitor?
Are you interested in providing several parallel copies of the same
basic information?  (perhaps with a single accessible box acting
as the agent for several separate back-end systems?
Or are you looking to combine various different sets of information?

Possibly more significantly, what software will you be using to
monitor this information?

The advantage of the master/subagent model, is that this is
completely transparent to the monitoring application.  From
the client side, it all looks like a single agent.
   With multiple independent agents running on the same box,
then the management application would need to know about
all of them - and how to contact each of them individually.

I'd suggest that the master/subagent approach would tend to
be a more natural arrangement in most cases.

That's assuming you're talking about monitoring a single box.
If you're looking at monitoring the whole network, it would be
more usual to have a separate agent (or master/subagent
group) running on each system.

Dave

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