HP Armada 7300 Intelligent Manageability for Armada Portable PCs - Page 18

INTELLIGENT MANAGEABILITY FOR ARMADA PORTABLE PRODUCTS (cont.) ... QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Q1. Is Intelligent Manageability based on industry standards? A1. Yes. Intelligent Manageability utilizes every relevant industry standard available in the PC market today. This includes providing full compliance and software support for industry standard DMI and SNMP. However, Compaq believes that industry standards should be used to deliver manageability solutions that lower the cost of PC computing. While other PC vendors will passively support industry standards, Compaq uses those standards to deliver real solutions. For example, in order to generate SMART hard drive pre-failure notifications Compaq uses the SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) or IntelliSafe industry standard. Other vendors support this technology, but only Compaq uses SMART to actually predict hard drive failures. In addition, Compaq's AssetControl Monitors have been designed to conform to VESA's Display Data Channel (DDC) specification. Using this technology, Compaq monitors can report asset information as well as any thermal or operational faults. This argument can be used for DIMM AssetControl information and Memory Change Alerts; both utilize the Serial Presence Detect Standard. In addition, the Management Solutions Partners Program provides de facto standard support for AssetControl, because this feature is supported across a broad range of PC LAN management applications. No proprietary software is needed to manage Armada portable PCs over the network because Compaq supports all the leading off-the-shelf management applications. Finally, other PC vendors will say that Intelligent Manageability is proprietary. From the above discussion it should be clear that Intelligent Manageability is based on industry standards. It should also be clear that these vendors use the "proprietary" message to cover for the fact that Intelligent Manageability significantly surpasses all other manageability solutions on the market and, thus, provides the most help in lowering the cost of PC computing. Some PC vendors even hide proprietary features and software behind a cloud of DMI Compliance when, in reality, these features have nothing to do with DMI. Q2. What are the new features of Intelligent Manageability for Armada portable PCs? A2. The new Insight Management Agent Version 3.50 includes the following new features: § DMI 2.0 compliance § Battery Charge Fault Alert § Battery Failure Alert § Battery Asset Management (AssetControl) § Monitor Fault Diagnosis: § Monitor Thermal Alert § Monitor Operational Alerts (horizontal and vertical deflection) § Monitor Asset Management (AssetControl) § Ownership Tag (Computer Setup feature) Compaq Diagnostics for Windows (Compaq Insight Personal Edition) is also part of the Intelligent Manageability solution. Please, see the Availability Matrix for more details on Intelligent Manageability support. 18