Supermicro Thin-Agent Service (TAS)

Supermicro Thin-Agent Service (TAS) is a lightweight daemon that collects system usage information at the OS level and provides to BMC/IPMI. Users could monitor this information through SUM software for advance system management. For earlier HW Platforms’ BMC, where there is no RAID controller supported, it is recommended to install TAS.

Features:

• Provides Asset and Health Information
  • Hardware Information: CPU, Memory, NIC, and HDD Health
  • Usage Monitoring: CPU workload, Memory Size, NIC State, and Disk Partition
• Supports RAID & HDD SMART Failure Information
  • Broadcom 3108 RAID Controller
  • Intel PCH/RSTe RAID Chipset
• Generates State Event Log
  • Disk Failure
  • NIC State Change