What advantages do agentless systems monitoring offer?
The traditional market for agentless has been among those willing to trade flexibility, breadth of reporting, robustness, multi-operating system support, and limited application availability for less expensive systems monitoring. Agentless systems monitoring was promoted for its ease-of-use, fast implementation and lowered maintenance costs and effort. Traditionally, the reported strengths were never as clear and unequivocally present as advertised. Early agentless solutions were especially vulnerable to broken connections (preventing data collection), and the cost savings reduced when the lack of remedial and reporting functions necessitated purchasing additional tools to perform those functions. Agentless solutions have come a long way from the earlier under-featured, less robust, bandwidth hungry initial implementations. It is not at all unusual to find agentless solutions that…
