Exam 200-201 topic 1 question 210 discussion

Agent-based monitoring: With agent-based monitoring, software agents are installed on the monitored systems or devices. These agents collect data locally, perform filtering or preprocessing of the data, and then transmit the relevant or valuable information to the monitoring system. Agent-based monitoring allows for local processing and filtering, which can reduce network utilization by only transmitting essential data. Agentless monitoring: Agentless monitoring, on the other hand, does not require software agents to be installed on the monitored systems or devices. Instead, it relies on leveraging existing protocols and interfaces, such as APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) or SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol), to remotely access and retrieve monitoring data from the target systems. Agentless monitoring generally involves higher network utilization as the monitoring system needs to gather data from remote systems over the network.

Also, it is not D because agentless monitoring is not as granular as agent-based monitoring, as it can only provide a limited amount of data about the devices and systems being monitored, and it may not be able to collect certain types of data.

C Agent-based doesn't depend on the network so no/less disruption. Agentless depends on protocols and open ports as SNMP or WMI.

I'd agree with Topsecret's statement. Going for D also.

Agent-based solutions require you to install code on the system being monitored in order to capture the desired information; while agentless solutions communicate directly with API's that provide rich information about the resources being monitored. Agentless monitoring is networking based.