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Question
An OMi deployment typically consists of the OMi servers, one or more connected servers, and the nodes monitored by HP Operations Agents. The agents enable you to collect event data, discover topology, and run actions. When you monitor nodes using agents, it is important to check that the agent is running correctly, and that the server and agent can communicate with each other.
Health checks are especially important in agent installations that facilitate the integration of data from other management systems (for example, HP OpsCx, SiteScope, or ArcSight Logger). If the agent on such a system fails, the event flow from the integration also stops.
By default, health checking (of the type Agent & Server) is enabled for all agents monitored by OMi and, also by default, agents send heartbeat events only to their primary manager.