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Desktop Management Guide Subscriber's Choice Subscriber's Choice is a client-based service from HP. Based on your profile, HP will supply you with personalized product tips, feature articles, and/or driver and support alerts/notifications. Subscriber's Choice Driver and Support Alerts/Notifications will deliver E-mails notifying you that the information you subscribed to in your profile is available for review and retrieval. To learn more about Subscriber's Choice and create a custom profile, visit http://www.hp.com/go/pcn. Retired Solutions The Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) introduced the Desktop Management Interface (DMI) standard almost ten years ago. Due to new standards adoption such as the Common Information Model (CIM), the DMTF has initiated end-of-life for DMI. Given other advancements in HP Client Management Solutions, HP Systems Insight Manager, and Microsoft's implementation of CIM, known as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the HP Insight Management Agent is no longer being provided on new HP commercial desktop, workstation, and notebook models introduced after January 1, 2004. The Insight Management (IM) Agent provided the following features: ■ DMI support allowed a client system to be managed by Insight Manager 7 or other DMI-compliant management applications. ■ A Web agent allowed the system to be managed both locally and remotely by a web browser. ■ Health alerting could notify the user locally or be sent to a central console. Insight Manager has been replaced by HP Systems Insight Manager Software (HP SIM). HP SIM uses WMI to retrieve client system information. The Altiris Connector for HP Systems Insight Manager is available and enables the HP Client Management Solutions through the HP SIM console. 10 www.hp.com Desktop Management Guide