Specifications

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■ SNMP standards—allow 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 these operating systems:
❑ Microsoft Windows NT
❑ Novell NetWare, intraNetWare and intraNetWare for Small Business
❑ SCO UNIX, OpenServer, and UnixWare
■ 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 Management Agents operate on Compaq systems (such as servers and workstations),
performing in-depth monitoring of the system 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 (SNMP).
Compaq Insight Manager
Compaq Insight Manager delivers intelligent monitoring and alerting as well as visual control of
the Compaq hardware. In the unlikely event of hardware failures, Compaq Insight Manager also
provides a full complement of remote maintenance and control facilities.
For additional information, refer to the online Compaq Insight Manager User Guide on the
server documentation CD that accompanied the server.