Specifications

3-68 Compaq ProLiant 5500 and 5500R Maintenance and Service Guide
For use with Pentium II and Pentium III Xeon processor-based servers only
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Remote Management - Manages in-band or out-of-band devices, online or offline, from
any location.
■ Integration with Enterprise Management Platforms - Provides integration with leading
management platforms including HP OpenView, IBM NetView, SunNet Manager, and
Microsoft Systems Management Server.
■ Full integration with Compaq Remote Insight Board/PCI and ProLiant Integrated Remote
Console which allows “in-band” and “out-of-band” connection for server management to
ensure that customers are in touch with their systems, even when they are off-line or
without power.
■ SNMP standards provide integration with other management products.
■ Flexible network conductivity supports multiple transport protocols including IPX,
TCP/IP and PPP to operator over LANs, WANs, and modems.
■ Support for the following leading operating systems:
!"Microsoft Windows NT
!"Novell NetWare, IntranetWare and IntranetWare for Small Business
!"SCO UNIX, OpenServer, and UnixWare
!"IBM OS/2 Warp family of products
■ Reporting - Using Automatic Data Collection, gathers historic performance information
for graphing or export purposes.
Compaq Insight Management Software Architecture
The Compaq Insight Management software architecture is typical of other network management
solutions. It has a client/server architecture and is composed of agent software (Compaq Insight
Management Agents) and the management application software (Compaq Insight Manager).
Insight Management Agents
Insight Agents operate on Compaq systems (such as servers and workstations), performing in-
depth monitoring of the system's state by collecting and measuring system parameters. These
parameters indicate the current state of subsystems by counting the occurrence of particular
events (for example, the number of read operations performed on a disk drive) or monitoring the
state of a critical function (such as whether the cooling fan is operating).
Insight Desktop Agents operate on Compaq Deskpro computers, monitoring functions that
include temperature sensing and disk pre-failure alerting.
Insight Agents provide information to management applications such as Compaq Insight
Manager, and can generate alarm notifications if significant changes occur in the fault or
performance aspects of system operation. Information is delivered to and from the Insight
Agents by the industry-standard Simple Network Management Protocol or SNMP.