System information

Chapter 1. TME 10 NetFinity Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the TME 10 NetFinity product, as well as

shows the installation and configuration of TME 10 TME 10 NetFinity on the NT

platform. This includes the hardware and software requirements.

1.1 What Is TME 10 NetFinity under NT

TME 10 NetFinity is a set of applications used for systems management and

monitoring capabilities. Due to its product structure, it is very flexible and allows

updating of existing product components new features without having to reinstall

the product.

TME 10 NetFinity enables you to monitor and manage systems locally and

remotely without any interruptions to your users. It helps keep you informed

about actual problems within your network as well as helping you to fix them. It

is also very flexible when it comes to connecting to its clients. From a functional

perspective, the transport protocol used for connectivity does not determine

which services are available. When connecting to its clients, it uses just the

network device drivers, which makes it very convenient if you want to change

the network adapters. You don′t have to make any changes within TME 10

NetFinity if you change transport protocols, just the operating system device

drivers.

TME 10 NetFinity is designed to help solve problems for your clients whether

their workstations are notebooks, desktops or servers as long as the

workstations are systems that are running under the TME 10 NetFinity-supported

operating systems.

TME 10 NetFinity is part of the TME 10 product family, which also means that it

will cooperate with all the other SystemView products on the MVS, AIX and

OS/400 platforms as well as with other TME 10 products.

This redbook describes the systems management capabilities of TME 10

NetFinity on NT Server 3.51 as well as the systems management functions that

are built into the NT operating system. In addition, we use the NT 3.51 Resource

Kit to extend the systems management functions. We show how to manage

clients that are on the Windows NT, Windows 95, NetWare and OS/2 platforms.

This redbook also shows the different facilities of TME 10 NetFinity available

under NT in conjunction with TME 10 NetFinity on other TME 10 operating

systems as well as the Windows NT 3.51 Advanced Server system management

functions built into the server software.

1.2 Hardware and Software Requirements under NT

1. Software requirements:

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Operating System:

− Microsoft Windows NT 3.x

− OS/2 2.11 or higher

− DOS Windows 3.11

− Windows 95