Administration / Monitoring no agent

I want to be sure of this answer before I give it to my superiors.
Is there any type of administration or monitoring that can be done without an Intelligent Agent on the server that the database resides on (that you want to monitor)?
Regards
Tim

Hi Timothy
My name is Robert, and I am Oracle DBA 8 years ago. The answer to your question have two possibilities:
1. There are a different softwares for some enterprises to monitoring a entire IT enviroment. The most populars: HP Openview, IBM Tivoli, BMC Patrol, Nimbus,. etc. All of these like Oracle Grid Control install an agent in the machine that is monitored. The explanation is very simple. The agent is the program that collect the information and after send this information to central console. All softwares of this type work at same way. Other consideration is the size of this agent and the consume in cpu and memory of this agent. The agent of openview is in my experience a good example of performance , because work without affect the performance of the machine.
2. Other software that monitoring not work with agent, but the funcionality and possibilities are limited. An example is Quest Spotlight , that not work with a agent. This software install a schema user in oracle database .
The best solution is the 1.

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http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2009/01/27/console-based-agent-deployment-troubleshooting-table.aspx
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