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Advantages of Remote Monitoring

Remote Monitoring involves agent-less rather than agent-based technology and there are advantages to both strategies. Use this information when deciding whether to use RM or deployed agents.

RM offers the following benefits:

• Costs less to set up, configure, and deploy
• Simplifies software upgrades and maintenance
• Deploys quickly and is less intrusive on the monitored environment
• Utilizes fewer resources on the managed server

A deployed agent offers the following benefits:

• Provides more detailed data and higher levels of functionality for the monitored servers and applications
• Requires less network bandwidth to operate
• Provides a higher degree of scalability, scaling to thousands of servers
• Continues to monitor server health and conduct data gathering when network connections are unavailable (as agent can work autonomously)
• Provides stronger command and control functions over the managed servers