HP ProLiant 3000 Compaq Servers: Enterprise Class Performance Leading the Way - Page 6

ECG078/0498 WHITE PAPER COMPAQ SERVERS: ENTERPRISE CLASS SYSTEMS 6... • Focusing on the total cost of ownership by giving customers the best price:performance value and the broadest array of possible solutions available for deployment Engineering Manageability Compaq designs extensive manageability into its products, enabling fault prediction and alerting detailed asset and configuration inventory, and performance monitoring. More than 1,000 parameters are instrumented, all monitored by Compaq Insight Management Agents. These agents provide predictive failure alerts and access to management parameter values from a broad range of operating environments including Novell NetWare, Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95, OS/2, and SCO UNIX and UnixWare. Compaq Insight Manager Compaq Insight Manager (CIM) is an intelligent management tool that constantly monitors and analyzes critical information for every Compaq server. It brings information to the customers and gives them the tools to respond. Customers can quickly and easily address problems before they become disasters-preventing downtime and costly data loss while saving customers time and legwork. Compaq's Insight Manager is also based on a 32-bit architecture, making it scalable and powerful enough to manage thousands of systems from a single console. Compaq Insight Manager is a key component of the Integration Management process. CIM supports this process through the Integration Server Maintenance feature, which lets customers compare their current software versions with the latest software available from Compaq, and then recommends key updates. Customers can download the updates to their Integration Server, a central software repository, via the Internet, by modem, or from CD, so they have continual access to the latest versions but manage upgrades to meet their needs. And soon, Compaq will use the Internet to offer proactive, automatic notification of the latest revisions of Compaq software, firmware, drivers, and technical support information relevant to customers' specific network environment. Comprehensive Server Management Includes Partnerships Compaq is committed to adhering to industry standards and building strong partnerships with leading software vendors to ensure that its systems are the most manageable in a customer's environment. Compaq Insight Manager gives customers the flexibility to manage Compaq servers from leading enterprise management platforms like OpenView for HP-UX and NetView for AIX. The CIM modules extend OpenView and NetView capabilities for managing Compaq systems. Also, to enhance existing management capabilities, Compaq has developed Compaq Systems Management Partnerships with industry-leading vendors such as BMC Software, Boole & Babbage, Cabletron Systems, Seagate EMS, and Tivoli Systems. These partners have enhanced their products to integrate Compaq Insight Manager information, making Compaq systems the most manageable in a customer's environment. Total cost of ownership As part of its value-add integration, Compaq is committed to high ownership satisfaction and lower cost of ownership. The total cost of ownership is the cost of the entire life cycle of IT solutions required to create a business advantage and includes not only acquisition price but additional factors such as support, administration, and technology refreshing costs. Compaq is committed to addressing the cost concerns of its customers across the entire life cycle of the solution. Compaq's value model has always been based on reducing the cost of computing