HP Dc5850 HP Compaq Business PC Manageability White Paper - Page 5
Use Case, Proactive Management Services
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Use Case - Proactive Management Services Proactive management is the ability to generate alerts on pre-determined events and log them for later analysis. Management technologies use event-based alerting along with event logging and reporting to aid IT departments in detecting failing systems and correcting the problem before an actual failure occurs. Figure 3: Proactive Management Offline System 1) Hard drive fails SMART and the event is logged No alert is sent to IT because system is not on the network. IT Department Online System Later, the network is restored. 2) IT reads event log to determine if an event occurred while the system was offline 3) IT sees the SMART failure event. 4) IT sends personnel to backup data and replaces HDD before HDD crash occurs.