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3 Security and Manageability Features Hardware Monitoring with HP TopTools Hardware Monitoring with HP TopTools If you have HP TopTools, the Health tool in the HP TopTools for Desktops agent interface provides the following tools for hardware monitoring: • Status, for a general overview of your PC's health, showing an indicator light and a text message for each health feature • Disk reliability, for the health status of your IDE hard disk drives. Non-IDE disks such as SCSI are not supported by this tool • Power-on self test information, for the details of power-on test failures as well as recommendations for remedy • Alert Log, which allows you to view alerts generated by DMI-enabled applications such as TopTools and McAfee VirusScan®. HP TopTools also includes a Crash Monitor module that can be downloaded and installed together with TopTools. This module helps you to save your data if an application crashes. Since crashes are often caused by low system resources, TopTools can send out alerts when these resources are running low. HP TopTools is provided on preloaded Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 models. It is also available free of charge on the HP Web site at www.hp.com/go/manageability. To start TopTools or to consult the TopTools online help in Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95, click the Start button, then select Programs, and click HP TopTools for Desktops. For more information about HP TopTools, connect to HP's Web site at www.hp.com/go/manageability. 71

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Security and Manageability Features
Hardware Monitoring with HP TopTools
Hardware Monitoring with HP TopTools
If you have HP TopTools, the Health tool in the HP TopTools for
Desktops agent interface provides the following tools for hardware
monitoring:
•
Status, for a general overview of your PC’s health, showing an
indicator light and a text message for each health feature
•
Disk reliability, for the health status of your IDE hard disk drives.
Non-IDE disks such as SCSI are not supported by this tool
•
Power-on self test information, for the details of power-on test
failures as well as recommendations for remedy
•
Alert Log, which allows you to view alerts generated by DMI-enabled
applications such as TopTools and McAfee VirusScan
®
.
HP TopTools also includes a Crash Monitor module that can be
downloaded and installed together with TopTools. This module helps
you to save your data if an application crashes. Since crashes are often
caused by low system resources, TopTools can send out alerts when
these resources are running low.
HP TopTools is provided on preloaded Windows 95 and
Windows NT 4.0 models. It is also available free of charge on the HP
Web site at
www.hp.com/go/manageability
.
To start TopTools or to consult the TopTools online help in Windows
NT 4.0 or Windows 95, click the
Start
button, then select
Programs
, and
click
HP TopTools for Desktops
.
For more information about HP TopTools, connect to HP’s Web site at
www.hp.com/go/manageability
.