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

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Advanced System Management Note: Although Advanced System Management is not included with or supported on the IBM Netfinity 4000R, the IBM Netfinity 4000R can manage servers that have an IBM Advanced System Management Adapter, Netfinity Advanced System Management Processor, or Netfinity Advanced System Management PCI Adapter. 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 timeouts 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 both stand-alone 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 remote performance monitoring of every server on the network. Chapter 10. Starting Netfinity Manager 59

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Advanced System Management
Note:
Although Advanced System Management is not included with or supported
on the IBM Netfinity 4000R, the IBM Netfinity 4000R can manage servers
that have an IBM Advanced System Management Adapter, Netfinity
Advanced System Management Processor, or Netfinity Advanced System
Management PCI Adapter.
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 timeouts 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 both stand-alone
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 remote performance monitoring
of every server on the network.
Chapter 10.
Starting Netfinity Manager
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