To get the most out of your Monitoring entitlement, Red Hat suggests installing the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon on your client systems. Based upon OpenSSH, rhnmd enables the RHN Satellite Server to communicate securely with the client system to access internal processes and retrieve probe status.

Please note that the Red Hat Network Monitoring Daemon requires that monitored systems allow connections on port 4545. You may avoid opening this port and installing the daemon altogether by using sshd instead. Refer to Section 7.2.3, “Configuring SSH” for details.