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 Proactive hardware health alerting - You can receive health alerts from your HP systems, including thermal conditions and proactive hard drive failure warnings from HP SMART1 technology. Policy enforcement for key HP Professional Innovations Software You can use LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 to remotely enforce and control policies on some HP Professional Innovations Software solutions. For example, you can use LANDesk Management Suite with the following solutions:  HP Power Assistant - You can now perform the following activities: - Assign detailed power profiles (with OS as well as device-level power management settings) and power schedules that specify sleep or wake times - Change the active power profiles of HP systems to enhance power management control - View detailed power consumption and up-time utilization statistics  HP Connection Manager - You can now remotely management different communication devices and network connections, including WWAN, WLAN, and LAN connections. A simple user interface drives quick connectivity via intuitive buttons and controls.  HP Support Framework (HP Battery Check) - You can now remotely test the status of the batteries in HP systems featuring HP SMART Battery Technology. Using a built-in microchip, HP SMART Batteries can maintain and report their own health status. Key features Table 1 summarizes the features offered in LANDeskManagement Suite 9.5. Table 1. Key LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 features Benefit Enterprise efficiency and scalability Feature Content replication Core synchronization Rollup core Reporting LANDesk Cloud Services Appliance Role-based administration LANDesk Dynamic Preferred Server Cross-platform support Agent watcher Enterprise alerting Description Replicate content from any file server source to other servers, enabling faster, more controllable, and more efficient distribution of content, patches, and updates Manage configurations and tasks on a central core; synchronize the configurations and tasks of all cores Collect and view data from every core, providing a centralized view of the enterprise Utilize powerful, flexible reporting capabilities to display the data you care about in the way you want to see it Provide complete anytime, anywhere management access for users outside your corporate firewall and at geographically-distributed sites Make console user management easy, secure, and flexible; define administrative access via defined roles or, if preferred, via granular permissions per user or per group Distribute packages with functional load balancing and fault tolerance Utilize broad platform support to reduce cost, increase productivity, and gain control of end user environments - latest platforms supported include Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, CentOS 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, Solaris 10, and HP-UX 11. Restart downed agents, restore them to their original state, and alert IT staff if a user removes or tampers with one Maintain control and keep the most important information in one easyto-view section 1 Where SMART denotes Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology 3