User Manual

6 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

■ Upgrade software.

■ Conﬁgure or reconﬁgure multiple systems simultaneously.

■ Scan for viruses.

■ Back-up hard drives and perform disaster recovery tasks.

For information on conﬁguring the MBA to boot from the network, see

Conﬁguring the Managed PC Boot Agent (MBA) on page 45.

For detailed information on the MBA, see the Managed PC Boot Agent User

Guide, located with the MBA software on the 3Com EtherLink Server CD.

Desktop Management

Interface (DMI) 2.0

DMI 2.0 enables managed computers and net computers to report details about

themselves and their peripheral devices across the network to a DMI

2.0-compliant management application.

A network administrator can then use this information to conﬁgure and manage a

client or server computer remotely.

For instructions on installing the 3Com DMI Agent, see Installing the

3Com DMI Agent on page 59.

For more detailed information on DMI, go to:

http://www.3com.com/managedpc

Remote System Alerts The NIC can be conﬁgured to continuously transmit a packet to an alert target

management station. If the management station fails to receive the regularly

scheduled packet, an alert can be triggered that signals a possible computer

power loss or theft.

The NIC can also transmit a workgroup keep-alive packet periodically while the

computer is in a sleep state. This packet prevents the computer workstation

address from being aged-out of switch router tables.