HP ProLiant DL590/64 ProLiant DL590/64 Server Technology - Page 17

TECHNOLOGY BRIEF (cont.) BIOS - Basic Input Output System SNMP - Simple Network Management Protocol DMI - Desktop Management Interface TC020702TB ... • Insight Manager 7. Insight Manager 7 maximizes system uptime, simplifies system software maintenance, and provides powerful monitoring and control of adaptive infrastructures. Insight Manager 7 delivers pre-failure alerting for ProLiant servers ensuring that potential server failures are detected before they result in unplanned system downtime. Through integration with the Version Control Repository Manager and Version Control Agent, Insight Manager 7 enables version control and remote update of BIOS, drivers, and agents across groups of servers. This enhances system stability, reduces troubleshooting complexity, and reduces the cost associated with maintaining system software configurations. Insight Manger 7 integrates with Windows security for streamlined user administration and strong authentication, and it encrypts management communications using industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Insight Manager 7 is also an effective tool for managing desktops and notebooks as well as other devices instrumented to SNMP or DMI. For more information, go to www.compaq.com/products/servers/management/cim7-description.html. The ProLiant DL590/64 server ships standard with additional management technologies that reduce downtime and increase productivity even more. Remote Flash Redundant ROM allows administrators to update the read-only memory (ROM) remotely, and the ROM-based Setup (RBSU) saves time during initial server configuration. The Integrated Management Display (IMD) provides essential information at a glance. ROM-Based Setup RBSU is a set of installation tools that use embedded ROM-based configuration tools to save time during initial deployment and enable virtual presence anywhere on the network. These tools use SmartStart technology to build the reliable and consistent server configurations that ProLiant customers rely on. SmartStart will not be supported on the ProLiant DL590/64 server. With RBSU, initial configuration is fast and easy and the server is always available. RBSU includes a look and feel familiar to ProLiant customers. Additionally, RBSU is compatible with SmartStart Scripting Toolkit and automatic system configuration ROM code. Remote Flash Redundant ROM The ProLiant DL590/64 server is equipped with a Remote Flash Redundant ROM that improves manageability. Using the Remote ROM Flash Utility, administrators can flash the system ROMs for a wide range of ProLiant servers, locally or across the network. The Remote ROM Flash Utility is a combination of components that allows administrators to upgrade the system ROMs on servers from a single point of execution. The ROM upgrades can either be flashed individually or batched together to perform multiple ROM upgrades in a single step. Remote Flash Redundant ROM provides a unique redundancy feature that helps ensure system availability and avoid system downtime due to a failure in the ROM flash process. This redundancy feature uses two ROM images and gives the system the ability to recover the last known good system ROM in the event that the current system ROM is corrupted. When a ProLiant DL590/64 server leaves the factory, both ROM images are identical. Through subsequent boots of the server, if integrity errors are detected by the boot block, the system will automatically launch the redundant image and continue the POST process. If the redundant ROM is launched, the user will see an error message identifying the faulty system ROM. For more information, refer to the technology brief Compaq Remote-Flash Redundant ROM Technology. 17