After we provided the software with an IP range, it quickly identified 67 SNMP-manageable devices on the LAN, ranging from hubs and switch ports, to a Network Appliance NetCache C1100 we're currently evaluating, to a number of servers that had SNMP agents active. Normally, the software performs the discovery process once per day, at midnight. This, like most health parameters, is extremely user-configurable there are options for just about everything, which can be overwhelming until you decide to just trust the defaults.
All configuration takes place from the server console.
According to Concord, Live Health is preprogrammed with the MIB definitions for more than 500 SNMP-manageable devices, so it can find out as much information as is relevant. Unlike EotS, it doesn't ask devices for their fan status or monitor their operating temperature. Nor does it determine the network's topology and, thus, device and port dependencies. All captured data is stored in the Open Ingress database, normally for six weeks. I would like to know how you compare these with the two mentioned in your article.