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Supported Agents

The following agents are supported:

Agent Description
SNMP Agent Provides information about the operating systems, device types, installed software, and other system resources information. SNMP agents can usually be extended to support new MIBs, exposing more data for management purposes.
WMI Agent Microsoft's remote management agent, which is usually available for access by a remote administrator. The WMI agent is also extensible by adding WMI providers to the generic agent.
Telnet/SSH Agent (or daemon)

Used mostly on UNIX systems to connect remotely to a machine and to launch various commands to obtain data.

Universal Discovery Agent A remote administration technology similar in functionality to Telnet/SSH that enables launching any console command on Windows/UNIX/Mac OS X machines. The Universal Discovery Agent (UD Agent) implements a Web Services interface that is secured by the HTTPS protocol to secure communication between the Data Flow Probe and the UD Agent. Additionally, an RSA 2048-bit key is implemented together with 3DES 168-bit encryption.
HPCmd

A remote administration technology similar in functionality to Telnet/SSH that enables launching any console command on Windows machines. HPCmd relies on Administrative Shares & Remove Service Administration APIs to function correctly.

The HPCmdSvc.exe file is signed by an HP digital certificate. To validate that HPCmdSvc.exe is provided by HP, right-click the HPCmdSvc.exe file, select Properties and view the digital signatures.

Application specific Depends on the remote application to function as an agent and respond appropriately to the Probe's remote queries, for example, database discoveries, Web server discoveries, and SAP and Siebel discoveries.