User Guide
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applications. Key capabilities of this tool include:
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Terminate and relaunch the application when targeted application becomes unresponsive.
• Gracefully shutdown or restart OS whenever it detects a target application failed x + times – as specified by the user,
since the last Windows boot.
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Log application monitoring activity to easily accessible log file.
• This utility can enable hardware watchdog timer to execute a hard system reset if a monitored application causes
the system to become unresponsive.
• Manage Failover NUCs when a given NUC goes down due to power or network failure.
• Hardware Diagnostic feature runs diagnostics on HDMI-CEC WMI interfaces exposed by NUC ACPI BIOS
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However, this configuration tool is not needed for basic application monitoring.
The below image explains the overall topology of the application and configuration tool.
Software components are:
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Intel® NUC Pro Software Suite and drivers installed on the target NUC
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Intel® NUC Pro Software Suite – Configuration Tool installed on the host PC
1.2
Supported NUC Products
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Intel® NUC 12 Pro Kit / Board NUC12WS
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Intel® NUC 12 Compute Element ELM12HB with Intel® NUC Rugged Chassis Element CMCR1ABA / CMCR1ABB / CMCR1ABC
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Intel® NUC 12 Compute Element ELM12HB with Intel® NUC Pro Chassis Element CMCM2FB/ CMCM2FBAV
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Intel® NUC 11 Pro Kit / Board NUC11TN
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Intel® NUC 11 Compute Element CM11EB with Intel® NUC Rugged Chassis Element CMCR1ABA / CMCR1ABB / CMCR1ABC
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Intel® NUC 11 Compute Element CM11EB with Intel® NUC Pro Chassis Element CMCM2FB/ CMCM2FBAV
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Intel® NUC 8 Rugged Kit NUC8CCH
(Note: NUC8CCH only supports application monitoring and hardware watchdog timer. It
does not support the player failover feature).