Hardware Monitoring With Hp Toptools - HP Vectra VL600 Supplementary Manual

Hardware Monitoring with HP TopTools

If you have HP TopTools, the Health tool in the HP TopTools for
Desktops agent interface provides the following tools for hardware
monitoring:
Status, for a general overview of your PC's health, showing an
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indicator light and a text message for each health feature.
Disk reliability, for the health status of your IDE hard disk drives.
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Non-IDE disks such as SCSI are not supported by this tool.
Power-on self test information, for the details of power-on test
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failures as well as recommendations for remedy.
Chassis Intrusion, which alerts your system administrator if your
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PC's cover is removed.
Alert Log, which allows you to view alerts generated by DMI-enabled
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applications such as TopTools and McAfee VirusScan
HP TopTools also includes a Crash Monitor module that can be
downloaded and installed together with TopTools. This module helps
you to save your data if an application crashes. Since crashes are often
caused by low system resources, TopTools can send out alerts when
these resources are running low.
You can use the HP TopTools Device Manager to carry out remote
updates from the Web on video, LAN, IDE device and SCSI device
drivers. PCs whose drivers are being updated must have TopTools for
Desktops 4.0 agent or higher installed.
HP TopTools is provided on preloaded Windows 95, Windows 98 and
WindowsNT4.0 models. These and a Windows 2000 version (when it
becomes available) can be obtained free of charge from the HP Web
site at
www.hp.com/go/manageability
To start TopTools or to consult the TopTools online help in Windows NT
4.0 or Windows 95, click the
click
HP TopTools for Desktops
For more information about HP TopTools, connect to HP's Web site at
www.hp.com/go/manageability
Hardware Monitoring with HP TopTools
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button, then select
Start
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