Managing Workstations; Pc Health Meter; Pc Health Description - NEC PowerMate Enterprise Manual

Managing Workstations

Client Manager sets up a connection to all the workstations running on the network to
allow the administrator to monitor the functions of each workstation.
The monitoring is in real time so that if an unhealthy workstation is fixed, you can refresh
the screen to view the new correct PC health. You can also set the monitor to report only
unhealthy workstations.

PC Health Meter

The PC Health meter is a traffic signal that provides a visual indicator of workstation health.
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A red light indicates that a critical system event has occurred. You are required to
fix the problem immediately.
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A yellow light or noncritical system event requires that you monitor the situation.
It may be a problem that could get worse and become a critical event.
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A green light indicates everything is working fine with the system.

PC Health Description

The description of PC health is determined by monitoring various system components for
threshold levels. Some of the components that are monitored include:
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drive space
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prediction of hard drive failure (Smart Hard Drive failure prediction)
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free virtual memory
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temperatures
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power supplies
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chassis opened
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GDI used
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non-critical boot failure
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boot virus detection.
Once a threshold level has been passed on a workstation, you can request notification of the
problem and have it written into a log file.
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