In cloudmon, should I install agents on all servers?

In cloudmon, should I install agents on all servers?

There are different types of monitoring. If you want to monitor the latency, jitter and link connectivity, you do not require agents on the servers.

But if you want to monitor, CPU, memory, network, system resources like disk, file system utilization, then you have to install agent on your servers.

If the servers are SNMP enabled, without agents you can connect via SNMP and pull the matrix. But, SNMP is a very restricted interface details and basic usage of the Tx and Rx only you get, whereas, if you want to get the details like CPU, hard disk, processor where agent is recommended. Agent will give you full control on the entity of your monitoring.

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