IBM 6000R Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 146

Advanced System Management, Alert Manager, Alert on LAN configuration, Capacity Management

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Advanced System Management The Advanced System Management service provides extensive functionality available for your IBM PC Server Advanced System Management Adapter, Netfinity Advanced System Management PCI Adapter, or Netfinity Advanced System Management Processor. With the Advanced System Management service, you can configure system management events (such as POST, loader, and operating system time-outs or critical temperature, voltage, and tamper alerts). If any of these events occurs, the Advanced System Management service can be configured to use a modem or your Netfinity Manager system to automatically forward a Netfinity alert to other Netfinity Manager systems or to a numeric or alphanumeric pager. Alert Manager The Alert Manager is an extendable facility that allows receiving and processing of application-generated alerts. A variety of actions can be taken in response to alerts, including logging alerts, notifying the user, forwarding the alert to another system, executing a program, playing a WAV file (available only on multimedia systems), generating an SNMP alert message, dialing out to a digital pager service (available only on systems that have a modem), or taking an application-defined action. Actions are user-definable, using a flexible action management interface. Also, an extensive, detailed log is kept of all alerts received by the Alert Manager. Logged information includes date and time the alert was received, type and severity of the alert, the ID of the application that generated the alert, as well as any text that was generated and any action taken by the Alert Manager. Individual or multiple alerts can be selected from the log and printed for later reference, or deleted once problems are corrected. This service is available for standalone use and network use. Alert on LAN configuration Use the Alert on LAN configuration service to configure monitoring options of Alert on LAN-capable systems locally and remotely. Systems with Alert on LAN capability provide critical status information about system states. The data is reported by hardware or software (depending upon whether the systems in currently powered on or not) using TCP/IP. Capacity Management Capacity Management is an easy-to-use resource management and planning tool for network managers and administrators, allowing you to remotely monitor the performance of servers on the network. Cluster Manager Cluster Manager is an application designed to enhance the cluster management capabilities of the Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) administration console, included with Microsoft Windows NT Version 4.0 Enterprise Edition. Cluster Manager builds on the power of MSCS, providing an integrated graphical interface that enables you to quickly and easily monitor and manage the clustered systems on your network. This service is available only on systems running Windows NT Workstation 4.0. 134 Netfinity 6000R Type 8682 Models 1RY, 2RY

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Netfinity 6000R Type 8682 Models 1RY, 2RY
Advanced System Management
The Advanced System Management service provides exten-
sive functionality available for your IBM PC Server
Advanced System Management Adapter, Netfinity
Advanced System Management PCI Adapter, or Netfinity
Advanced System Management Processor. With the
Advanced System Management service, you can configure
system management events (such as POST, loader, and
operating system time-outs or critical temperature, voltage,
and tamper alerts). If any of these events occurs, the
Advanced System Management service can be configured
to use a modem or your Netfinity Manager system to auto-
matically forward a Netfinity alert to other Netfinity Manager
systems or to a numeric or alphanumeric pager.
Alert Manager
The Alert Manager is an extendable facility that allows
receiving and processing of application-generated alerts. A
variety of actions can be taken in response to alerts, includ-
ing logging alerts, notifying the user, forwarding the alert to
another system, executing a program, playing a WAV file
(available only on multimedia systems), generating an
SNMP alert message, dialing out to a digital pager service
(available only on systems that have a modem), or taking an
application-defined action.
Actions are user-definable, using
a flexible action management interface.
Also, an extensive, detailed log is kept of all alerts received
by the Alert Manager.
Logged information includes date and
time the alert was received, type and severity of the alert,
the ID of the application that generated the alert, as well as
any text that was generated and any action taken by the
Alert Manager.
Individual or multiple alerts can be selected
from the log and printed for later reference, or deleted once
problems are corrected.
This service is available for stand-
alone use and network use.
Alert on LAN configuration
Use the Alert on LAN configuration service to configure
monitoring options of Alert on LAN-capable systems locally
and remotely.
Systems with Alert on LAN capability provide
critical status information about system states.
The data is
reported by hardware or software (depending upon whether
the systems in currently powered on or not) using TCP/IP.
Capacity Management
Capacity Management is an easy-to-use resource manage-
ment and planning tool for network managers and adminis-
trators, allowing you to remotely monitor the performance of
servers on the network.
Cluster Manager
Cluster Manager is an application designed to enhance the
cluster management capabilities of the Microsoft Cluster
Server (MSCS) administration console, included with
Microsoft Windows NT Version 4.0 Enterprise Edition. Clus-
ter Manager builds on the power of MSCS, providing an inte-
grated graphical interface that enables you to quickly and
easily monitor and manage the clustered systems on your
network.
This service is available only on systems running
Windows NT Workstation 4.0.