User's Manual

Introduction
What is HP Device Manager? 3
HP Management Server
The HP Management Server controls agents through the HP Man-
agement Gateway. Tasks, stored as Task Templates on the server, can
be sent to each agent through each agent’s respective gateway to per-
form commands as required.
HP Management Gateway
The HP Management Gateway serves as the link between devices
and the HP Management Server. Devices register with the gateway
when they are started. The machine installed with the HP Manage-
ment Gateway also normally contains the PXE Server installed by
HP Device Manager.
Device Agent
The HP Management Agent is a software component installed on
thin client devices so that HP Device Manager can interact with
them. Agents are embedded into each HP operating system to enable
Device Manager to manage devices out-of-the-box (however, agents
on older devices may need to be upgraded). Agents get task
commands, execute the commands and report on their status.
FTP Server
The FTP server is where files are stored in a repository of compo-
nents, images, etc. that can be uploaded from or downloaded to the
agents at the request of the HP Management Server. You can create a
repository on more than one FTP server. The repository on an FTP
server is referred to as the "FTP Repository" in dialogs and in this
User Manual to distinguish it from the HP Management Server
Repository (the "Server Repository").