When using the Hardware Management Agent on a SPARC server running Oracle VM which has multiple logical domains set up, the Hardware Management Agent can be installed on each logical domain. This enables you to monitor storage devices found in the logical domain using the Hardware Management Agent in a primary domain.

When installing into such a configuration, Hardware Management Agent requires direct access to the hardware that you want to monitor. Oracle VM for SPARC defines an Input / Output (I/O) domain as a domain that has direct ownership and access to the physical devices. Running Hardware Management Agent on a non-I/O domain host does not provide any physical device information because it does not have access to physical I/O devices. As a result, Hardware Management Agent installation is recommended on a I/O Domain or a Control domain. A Control domain is an I/O Domain by default in Oracle VM for SPARC.