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Chapter 6. IBM System Management Tools Intel LANDesk Client Manager The LANDesk Client Manager is a DMI compliant management application that supplies a user-friendly DMI management interface and component instrumentation. This application provides self-help tools, including a PC health meter, local alerting of potential problems, and hardware inventories. It automatically polls hardware to detect failure conditions and proactively alerts the user of potential problems. When the computer is connected to a network with LANDesk Workgroup Manager, hardware information and alerts can be retrieved across the network. Advanced Configuration and Power Interfaces (ACPI) Advanced Configuration and Power Interfaces (ACPI) will provide a standard means to integrate power management features throughout a system, including hardware, operating systems, and application software. With such integration and power management, the system can automatically turn off and on peripherals such as CD-ROMs, network cards, hard disk drives and printers as well as consumer devices connected to the PC, including VCRs, TVs, phones, and stereos. ACPI technology will also enable peripherals to activate and deactivate the PC. Other ACPI specification points of emphasis include the following: ACPI specifies a register-level interface to core power management functions and a descriptive interface for additional hardware features. ACPI provides a generic system event mechanism for Plug and Play, in addition to an operating system-independent interface for configuration control. ACPI leverages Plug and Play BIOS data structures while providing a processor architecture independent implementation-compatible with both Windows 95 and Windows NT. ACPI represents the foundation of the Microsoft OnNow initiative. OnNow represents a system-wide approach to system and device power control. OnNow is a term for a PC that is always on but appears off and responds to user or other requests. Wake on LAN Enhances remote management by enabling file updating and asset tracking on powered-off computers. Permits remote system setup, updates and asset tracking to occur after hours and on weekends so daily LAN traffic is kept to a minimum and users are not interrupted. Helps increase productivity of LAN administrators and computer users. Available on all current IBM IntelliStation and Client System PC and ThinkPad models. Wake on LAN is a technology that enables you to remotely manage the clients in your network even if they have been turned off. With the need to provide consistent and timely updates, such a feature brings new levels of control, simplicity and savings to LAN-based networks. IBM Client System PCs, IntelliStations, and ThinkPads offer many features designed to help reduce your total cost of doing business. Working with Intel through the AMA, IBM has devised a number of ways to integrate system management software with intelligent hardware. Wake on LAN, LANClient Control Manager (LCCM), IBM Netfinity Manager and Intel LANDesk Client Manager are system management tools that work together to attack your computing costs by allowing you to automate time-consuming, tedious PC management tasks and schedule these tasks for a time that is the least disruptive to users. Wake on LAN turns on the networked computers, and then your choice of these network management tools handles remote management operations and asset tracking. As long as the computers in the network are Wake on LAN-enabled and electricity is available, Wake on LAN can turn on any or all of the Chapter 6. IBM System Management Tools 41

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Chapter 6.
IBM System Management Tools
Intel LANDesk Client Manager
The LANDesk Client Manager is a DMI compliant management application that supplies a user-friendly
DMI management interface and component instrumentation.
This application provides self-help tools,
including a PC health meter, local alerting of potential problems, and hardware inventories.
It
automatically polls hardware to detect failure conditions and proactively alerts the user of potential
problems.
When the computer is connected to a network with LANDesk Workgroup Manager, hardware
information and alerts can be retrieved across the network.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interfaces (ACPI)
Advanced Configuration and Power Interfaces (ACPI) will provide a standard means to integrate power
management features throughout a system, including hardware, operating systems, and application
software.
With such integration and power management, the system can automatically turn off and on
peripherals such as CD-ROMs, network cards, hard disk drives and printers as well as consumer devices
connected to the PC, including VCRs, TVs, phones, and stereos.
ACPI technology will also enable
peripherals to activate and deactivate the PC.
Other ACPI specification points of emphasis include the
following:
ACPI specifies a register-level interface to core power management functions and a descriptive
interface for additional hardware features.
ACPI provides a generic system event mechanism for Plug and Play, in addition to an operating
system-independent interface for configuration control.
ACPI leverages Plug and Play BIOS data structures while providing a processor architecture
independent implementation-compatible with both Windows 95 and Windows NT.
ACPI represents the foundation of the Microsoft OnNow initiative.
OnNow represents a system-wide
approach to system and device power control.
OnNow is a term for a PC that is always on but
appears off and responds to user or other requests.
Wake on LAN
Enhances remote management by enabling file updating and asset tracking on powered-off
computers.
Permits remote system setup, updates and asset tracking to occur after hours and on weekends so
daily LAN traffic is kept to a minimum and users are not interrupted.
Helps increase productivity of LAN administrators and computer users.
Available on all current IBM IntelliStation and Client System PC and ThinkPad models.
Wake on LAN is a technology that enables you to remotely manage the clients in your network even if
they have been turned off.
With the need to provide consistent and timely updates, such a feature brings
new levels of control, simplicity and savings to LAN-based networks.
IBM Client System PCs, IntelliStations, and ThinkPads offer many features designed to help reduce your
total cost of doing business.
Working with Intel through the AMA, IBM has devised a number of ways to
integrate system management software with intelligent hardware.
Wake on LAN, LANClient Control
Manager (LCCM), IBM Netfinity Manager and Intel LANDesk Client Manager are system management
tools that work together to attack your computing costs by allowing you to automate time-consuming,
tedious PC management tasks and schedule these tasks for a time that is the least disruptive to users.
Wake on LAN turns on the networked computers, and then your choice of these network management
tools handles remote management operations and asset tracking.
As long as the computers in the
network are Wake on LAN-enabled and electricity is available, Wake on LAN can turn on any or all of the
Chapter 6.
IBM System Management Tools
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