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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