HP dx7200 HP Client Management Interface Technical White Paper - Page 7

Event Type Sensor related Device failures Configuration changes Description Events associated with health-monitoring sensors on the hardware platform. Sensor related events include: over-temperature, fan stalls, and chassis intrusion detection. Device failures refers to events for devices that are not monitored through hard-wired sensors, such as an ECC memory failure. When hardware configuration options are modified, or an attempt is made to modify these options without proper authority, HP CMI will generate related events to provide a mechanism to monitor and audit the interface from within the enterprise. Available Software Products HP Client Management Interface is included standard on select new HP business client computer models. An HP CMI Software Provider is also available for legacy models. In addition, several HP Client Management Solutions leverage the features of HP CMI. HP Client Management Interface Software Provider The HP CMI Software Provider, available as a SoftPaq downloadable from HP.com, extends many of the capabilities of the HP Client Management Interface for legacy HP business computers. While the HP CMI Software Provider does not contain all the features and flexibility of native HP CMI support, the Software Provider allows IT managers to reap many of the same benefits exposed by HP CMI on their existing hardware infrastructure. The following diagram shows how HP CMI Software Provider is a hybrid of the traditional management agent framework and the WMI instrumentation management model exposed by HP CMI. 7