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5.2.10.5 Automatic Diagnostics Framework
The combination of the TEC automated tasks, the Module for R/3 tools, and the
R/3 RFC interface makes an excellent framework for developing a comprehensive
set of automatic diagnostic tasks.
5.3 IBM Netfinity Manager
IBM Netfinity Manager is IBM’s comprehensive hardware systems management
tool for your complex system installations in network or stand-alone
environments. That includes your server as well as your workstations and
non-IBM products. It provides an easy-to-use graphical set of local and remote
services designed to make the server and client systems simple and affordable to
manage.
Netfinity Manager is included with every IBM Netfinity and PC Server system and
is shipped as part of the ServerGuide. One license of the manager code and 10
licenses of the Client Services are included.
From the SAP R/3 system point of view it is a system management platform that
gives the system and network administrator a huge choice of tools designed to
assist in the management and monitoring of your hardware environment both
remotely and locally.
Netfinity Manager operates in a peer-to-peer mode that minimizes the need for
expensive system management hardware. All that is required is the presence of a
physical network or a serial link. Netfinity Manager has its own interprocess
communication (IPC) system that is used for communication between Netfinity
Manager modules and services, locally and when operating remotely over a
network. Netfinity Manager collects all data about your systems that you request
to monitor in real time and online. The data represent the current status of your
systems and are not collected from old database information but can be exported
to databases. Netfinity Manager has a very flexible, modular design that allows
for a variety of system-specific installations and plug-in options to be used.
The IBM Netfinity Manager consist of two components:
• Netfinity Manager
• Client Services for Netfinity Manager (Client Services)
Wherever you want to manage some other PCs or server, you would use Netfinity
Manager. Whichever machines you want to be manageable remotely or if you
only want that machine to be able to manage itself and no other machines, you
would install Client Services for Netfinity Manager.
5.3.1 The Netfinity Manager
Netfinity Manager is the managing portion of the system. This component would
normally be installed on the administrator’s workstation and/or the servers
themselves.
Netfinity Manager is used for managing remote systems as well as the server or
workstation it is installed on. As a result a Netfinity Manager installation includes
the code for all Netfinity Manager functions and communications drivers to enable
management of all other machines with Netfinity Manager installed. As well as