User manual NEC POWERMATE ENTERPRISE 09-1997

[. . . ] PROPRIETARY NOTICE AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMER The information disclosed in this document, including all designs and related materials, is the valuable property of NEC Computer Systems Division, Packard Bell NEC, Inc. (hereinafter "NECCSD") and/or its licensors. NECCSD and/or its licensors, as appropriate, reserve all patent, copyright and other proprietary rights to this document, including all design, manufacturing, reproduction, use, and sales rights thereto, except to the extent said rights are expressly granted to others. The NECCSD product(s) discussed in this document are warranted in accordance with the terms of the Warranty Statement accompanying each product. [. . . ] Then, use the copy of the Setup selections you made at the beginning of this procedure to set the parameters. See "NECCSD Bulletin Board Service" in Chapter 7 for information about using the bulletin board (available in the U. S. and Canada). LANDESK CLIENT MANAGER LANDesk® Client Manager (LDCM) is a software program provided with your computer. LDCM uses the Desktop Management Interface (DMI) standard to manage components (network interface cards, memory, software applications) within a client (local) or remote (workstation) PC system. It provides features for managing the resources of a local PC and can be used by system administrators to manage groups of computer systems. With Client Manager you can perform the following tasks: T T T review system inventory of workstation hardware and software components view DMI-compliant component information set security features to change password (local machine) or enable/disable the serial ports, printer, or diskette drive (system administrator) Using Tools and Utilities 4-27 Parallel and serial ports can only be controlled from LANDesk Client Manager if they are also enabled in NEC Security. LANDesk Client Manager settings cannot override the settings established in NEC Security. NOTE T T T T T T T back up and restore system configuration files back up system and application software using Cheyenne Backup troubleshoot receive notice of system events (for example, if the system is running low on memory, you are notified of the potential problem) detect changes to CPU, memory, and hard disk characteristics and alert you to these changes (Configuration Change Notification) transfer files to and from client workstations remotely reboot client workstations. There are two main components of Client Manager: PC Health Indicator and Inventory. PC Health Indicator PC health indicator consists of three parts: T T T managing workstations selecting the PC Health meter monitoring PC Health. 4-28 Using Tools and Utilities Managing Workstations Client Manager sets up a connection to all the workstations running on the network to allow the administrator to monitor the functions of each workstation. The monitoring is in real time so that if an unhealthy workstation is fixed, you can refresh the screen to view the new correct PC health. You can also set the monitor to report only unhealthy workstations. Selecting the PC Health Meter The PC Health meter is a traffic signal that provides a visual indicator of workstation health. T T T A red light indicates that a critical system event has occurred. You are required to fix the problem immediately. A yellow light or noncritical system event requires that you monitor the situation. It may be a problem that could get worse and become a critical event. A green light indicates everything is working fine with the system. Monitoring PC Health PC health can be determined by monitoring various system components for threshold levels. Some of the components that are monitored include: T T T T T T drive space prediction of hard drive failure (Smart Hard Drive failure prediction) free virtual memory temperatures power supplies chassis opened Using Tools and Utilities 4-29 T T T GDI used non-critical boot failure boot virus detection. Once a threshold level has been passed on a workstation, you can request notification of the problem and have it written into a log file. Inventory Client Manager Inventory views the hardware and software components of your workstation. The inventory consists of the following categories: T T T T T T T T T T T T T T workstation summary basic hardware drives memory audio keyboard/mouse video system resources I/O ports operating system network applications system files user information. You can also view the current system configuration, edit user information, and create or restore file snapshots. 4-30 Using Tools and Utilities DMI As a part of the LANDesk Client Manager, the Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is the standard interface used to manage system components on the computer. Examples of system components are network interface cards and software applications. System components provide a Management Information Format (MIF) file to be DMIcompliant. The information file describes component attributes that can be managed. Client Manager can be used to "get" attribute information on system components. It can also be used to "set" attribute values in real time. Monitoring Capabilities Your PowerMate Enterprise computer has a chip mounted on the system board that supports many new and advanced real-time monitoring capabilities used by DMI. This chip provides the following features: T T T an integrated temperature sensor with configurable interrupt generation based on upper and lower temperature limits a power supply monitor with configurable interrupt generation based on upper and lower voltage limits chassis intrusion detection with interrupt generation capabilities. Using Tools and Utilities 4-31 To take advantage of these features, DMI has expanded its interface in the following areas: T T T T Interrupts may be enabled or disabled. High and low limits can be set and are displayed for temperature and power supply voltages. Current readings are displayed for temperature, power supply voltages, and chassis state. [. . . ] This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures. T T T Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. [. . . ]