Netfinity Manager Service Descriptions; Advanced System Management; Alert Manager - IBM x 340 Series Hardware Maintenance Manual

To start any Netfinity Manager service that appears in the Service Manager window,
double-click the icon for that service. To start a Netfinity Manager service on a remote
system, use the Remote System Manager service.

Netfinity Manager service descriptions

Each Netfinity Manager service consists of a base program and a graphical user
interface (GUI). The service base programs enable Netfinity Manager to remotely
access the individual services, but do not allow for local access. The service GUIs,
when functioning along with their respective base program, enable access to the
service.
Some services are available only on systems with certain system configurations. These
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Brief descriptions of each of the Netfinity Manager services follow. Complete
instructions on how to use each of these services can be found in the service-specific
chapters of the Netfinity Manager User's Guide.

Advanced System Management

The Advanced System Management service provides extensive functionality
available for your IBM PC Server Advanced System Management Adapter, Netfinity
Advanced System Management PCI Adapter, or Netfinity Advanced System
Management Processor. With the Advanced System Management service, you can
configure system management events (such as POST, loader, and operating system
time-outs or critical temperature, voltage, and tamper alerts). If any of these events
occurs, the Advanced System Management service can be configured to use a modem
or your Netfinity Manager system to automatically forward a Netfinity alert to other
Netfinity Manager systems or to a numeric or alphanumeric pager.

Alert Manager

The Alert Manager is an extendable facility that allows receiving and processing of
application-generated alerts. A variety of actions can be taken in response to alerts,
including logging alerts, notifying the user, forwarding the alert to another system,
executing a program, playing a WAV file (available only on multimedia systems),
generating an SNMP alert message, dialing out to a digital pager service (available
only on systems that have a modem), or taking an application-defined action. Actions
are user-definable, using a flexible action management interface.
Also, an extensive, detailed log is kept of all alerts received by the Alert Manager.
Logged information includes date and time the alert was received, type and severity
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Alert on LAN Configuration (available only on systems running Windows 95 or
later or Windows NT 4.0 or later)
Capacity Management (available only on systems running Windows NT 4.0 or
later)
Cluster Manager (available only on systems running Windows NT 4.0 or later)
DMI Browser (requires DMI Service Layer)
ECC Memory Setup (requires ECC memory)
Predictive Failure Analysis (requires a PFA-enabled hard disk drive)
RAID Manager (requires a RAID hard disk drive subsystem)
System Partition Access (requires a built-in System Partition)
Update Connector Manager (available only on systems running Windows NT 4.0
or later)