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toptools Toptools provides specific management to the following HP products: • HP Vectra and Brio Desktops • HP Kayak and Visualize Workstations • HP Omnibook Notebooks • HP Netservers • HP ProCurve and AdvanceStack networking devices • HP LaserJet and JetDirect products • HP Jornada PC Companions • HP SureStore products • HP Network Attached Storage (NAS) products • HP-UX systems User Guide Architecture Toptools collects and then stores information about your network into an ODBC compliant database (MEDS) on a web server. Toptools uses the web server to authenticate and present the information to toptools consoles. The toptools console, which presents the data to the user (network administrator), can be launched from any station on your network running a web browser supported by the toptools application. The web browser (toptools console) and the web server use the HTTP protocol, a standard used by the Internet that provides extensible mechanisms to authenticate a user and offers various encryption options to secure the communication. The use of a single protocol from the console to the management server simplifies remote connections through firewalls and minimizes security risks. Toptools Configuration Toptools communicates with managed devices using industry standard protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, DMI, WMI, SNMP, and HTTP. The protocols used to discover, inventory and manage each device will depend on which protocols the managed device supports. For example, toptools will typically use IP, SNMP, and HTTP to communicate with a ProCurve switch, IPX and SNMP to manage a Netserver running Novell NetWare, and IP and WMI to manage a new Windows 2000 HP Kayak workstation. The toptools discovery process, one of the several processes that are part of the toptools application, automatically detects which protocols are supported and saves that information to the database. 8

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toptools
User Guide
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Toptools provides specific management to the following HP products:
•
HP Vectra and Brio Desktops
•
HP Kayak and Visualize Workstations
•
HP Omnibook Notebooks
•
HP Netservers
•
HP ProCurve and AdvanceStack networking devices
•
HP LaserJet and JetDirect products
•
HP Jornada PC Companions
•
HP SureStore products
•
HP Network Attached Storage (NAS) products
•
HP-UX systems
Architecture
Toptools collects and then stores information about your network into an ODBC compliant database (MEDS) on a
web server.
Toptools uses the web server to authenticate and present the information to toptools consoles. The
toptools console, which presents the data to the user (network administrator), can be launched from any station on
your network running a web browser supported by the toptools application.
The web browser (toptools console) and the web server use the HTTP protocol, a standard used by the Internet that
provides extensible mechanisms to authenticate a user and offers various encryption options to secure the
communication. The use of a single protocol from the console to the management server simplifies remote
connections through firewalls and minimizes security risks.
Toptools Configuration
Toptools communicates with managed devices using industry standard protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, DMI, WMI,
SNMP, and HTTP.
The protocols used to discover, inventory and manage each device will depend on which
protocols the managed device supports.
For example, toptools will typically use IP, SNMP, and HTTP to
communicate with a ProCurve switch, IPX and SNMP to manage a Netserver running Novell NetWare, and IP and
WMI to manage a new Windows 2000 HP Kayak workstation. The toptools discovery process, one of the several
processes that are part of the toptools application, automatically detects which protocols are supported and saves that
information to the database.