Specifications

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File Transfer
Can send/receive files to the remote system.
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Remote Session
Can open a remote console to the managed device.
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Screen View
Can take a snapshot of any screen on the remote device.
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DMI Browser
Enables you to view information about DMI compliant hardware and
software.
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Process Manager
Enables you to start/stop/view processes running on the managed device.
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Software Inventory
Can scan remote device for installed software using a software
dictionary .
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POST Error Detect
Can detect and log errors at Power on System Test (POST) time on managed
devices.
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Event Scheduler
Used to automate the execution of a service on one or multiple systems in a
profile.
1.9.3.3 NetFinity Architecture
Each NetFinity service is comprised of two separate executables. One is a
unique graphical user interface for the applicable operating system. The second
is a native operating system executable, which is known as the base executable.
The base executable is the code that performs the client management and
monitoring tasks for each unique workstation. Communication between the GUI
and the base executable is handled by the NetFinity IPC (inter-process
communication) mechanism.
Using this IPC within the LAN, NetFinity was designed to provide a peer-to-peer
platform architecture, which does not require a management server or a
dedicated management console. From this design, a manager may take control
of the NetFinity client system to perform all NetFinity administrative and problem
reconciliation tasks as if they were the local user′s tasks. Additionally, IBM has
been able to isolate NetFinity from any network, protocol or operating system
layer dependencies. In essence, IBM uses the existing transport layers within
the installed network to allow NetFinity to communicate between NetFinity
Manager and NetFinity Services. Since IPC resides on top of the Media Access
Control (MAC) layer, it simply communicates between the installed NetFinity
modules and services, utilizing the transport mechanism within the workstation.
If the transport layer between the two NetFinity workstations is dissimilar, then
NetFinity utilizes a mapper (within a Manager), which receives data packets from
one transport and, using NetFinity manager, is able to re-wrap the packets for
transport into the foreign network.
When two NetFinity systems are connected in a networked environment, they
communicate via the IPC into the mapper, and then subsequently into a NetFinity
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