About ESM data collector target types

A target type for the ESM data collector is the platform on which you have the ESM agents installed.

Table: Supported ESM target types contains the list of target types that the ESM data collector supports.

Table: Supported ESM target types

Target type [need to refer to UI]

Description

All ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on any operating system

All UNIX ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on any UNIX operating system

Sun Solaris 10 ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on Solaris 10 operating system

Windows 2003 ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on Windows 2003 operating system

Windows XP ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on Windows XP operating system

Windows Vista ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on Windows Vista operating system

Windows 2008 ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on Windows 2008 operating system

AS/400 ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on AS/400 operating system

All Windows ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on any Windows operating system

All Windows 2000 ESM Agent Machines

All ESM agents running on Windows 2000 operating system

Note:

To create customized checks for ESM application modules, such as DB2 or SQL Server, you must use the underlying OS platform target type.