HP Professional sp750 Compaq Professional Workstation SP750 and AP550 Key Tech - Page 11

WHITE PAPER (cont'd) Compaq Professional Workstation - Key Technologies Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter Increasingly, personal computer (PC) manufacturers are equipping PCs with the capability to generate remote system alerts. Components within these PCs or, in some cases, the PCs themselves feature the intelligence required to identify local problems proactively and issue alerts that report these problems to a centralized management console. Alerting technologies reduce the cost of ownership not only by centralizing routine management functions but also by allowing network administrators to respond to events such as boot failure, overheating, tampering, or theft proactively before significant PC damage or loss can occur. The Network Interface Controller (NIC) is playing an increasingly significant role in the delivery of alerting capabilities. New, NIC-specific alerting technologies allow the NIC to receive event information from the PC, identify a particular event, and transmit a specific alert packet proactively to the management console. Intel has integrated Alert on LAN (AoL) technologies into the 82559 Fast Ethernet controller available with the new Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter. Compaq supports both Intel's Alert on LAN and 3Com's Remote System Alert alerting technologies on new Professional Workstation AP550 and SP750 models. 11