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SYSTEMS MANAGEMENTorganizations can buy SiteScope separately and install it on anexisting server to monitor the end-to-end IT infrastructure withoutinstalling agents.Dell PowerEdge servers configured with SiteScope can helpreduce TCO by:• Capturing an accurate and timely picture of performance datafor infrastructure components• Eliminating the need for extra memory or CPU power on productionsystems to run an agent• Reducing the time and cost of maintenance by consolidatingall maintenance onto one central server• Removing the requirement to take a production systemoffline to update its agent• Eliminating the time-consuming task of tuning monitoragents to coexist with other agents• Reducing installation time by removing the need to physicallyvisit production servers or wait for software distributionoperations• Abolishing the possibility that an unstable agent can causesystem downtime and subsequent loss of business• Providing built-in best practices that specify the most importantmetrics to monitor• Integrating with other Mercury software products to enablereal-time views and reports that correlate infrastructure performanceacross all business processesAgentless architectures in distributed IT environmentsAs enterprises move from monolithic mainframe or traditionalclient/server architectures to distributed environments, traditionalagent-based monitoring solutions can become too inefficient andexpensive to maintain. Agentlessarchitectures can help provide apowerful and scalable solutionfor monitoring distributed applicationsand hardware.SiteScope’s incorporation ofthe IPMI specification provides anideal way to monitor Dell systemsincluding eighth-generation DellPowerEdge servers. Whether byutilizing SiteScope alone, or byintegrating it with an existing DellOpenManage or third-party monitoringsolution, SiteScope enablesIT professionals to effectivelymonitor their systems, managetheir customers’ experiences,and report to clients that they aremeeting promised service levels.Agentless monitoringsolutions are designedto nonintrusively monitorall parts of the IT systemremotely from a singlehost system, creatinga wide variety of benefitsthat help lead tohigher ROI.With SiteScope, enterprises can effectively monitor, identify, andresolve problems within their IT infrastructure before their customersand critical business applications are affected.Using Mercury SiteScope and Dell OpenManageIn addition to implementing Mercury SiteScope, for example,many enterprises have incorporated hardware monitoringsolutions such as Dell OpenManage infrastructure. Forthis reason, an effective infrastructure management solutionmust have the capability to work cooperatively withinan organization’s existing environment to protect establishedIT investments.Mercury SiteScope integrates with Dell OpenManage by collectingdata from the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).SiteScope’s SNMP by MIB (management information base) monitoris designed to capture all Dell OpenManage data, including powerstate, device and subsystem status, and thermal information. Byusing other monitors, SiteScope provides the capability to collectdata from the applications that are running on Dell servers andrelated IT infrastructure. In so doing, SiteScope can provide Dellcustomers with a holistic, end-to-end solution that is designed toconsolidate Dell OpenManage, IPMI, application, transaction, andcore infrastructure health and performance information into oneeasily managed console.Bill Fitzgerald is a director of business development in Mercury’s Application ManagementBusiness Unit. Bill is responsible for driving the Dell and Mercury distribution partnership.He has more than 12 years of international and domestic business development and salesexperience in the enterprise management, software, and services industries. Bill has a degreein international studies from Eastern Illinois University.Bob Ure is a senior product marketing manager in Mercury’s Application ManagementBusiness Unit. He is responsible for shaping SiteScope to meet customers’ infrastructureperformance and availability monitoring needs. Bob has more than 15 years of product managementand marketing experience in the enterprise management market and has a degreein international business and an M.B.A., both from Brigham Young University.FOR MORE INFORMATIONAgentless monitoring of Dell servers using Mercury SiteScope:www.mercury.com/dellMercury SiteScope:www.mercury.com/dell66POWER SOLUTIONS Reprinted from Dell Power Solutions, February 2005. Copyright © 2005 Dell Inc. All rights reserved.February 2005