Dynamic Nas Groups; Nas Web Ui Task; Electronic Service Agent (Esa) - IBM totalstorage 326 User Reference

Dynamic NAS groups

Dynamic NAS groups are an IBM Director Management Server enhancement made
specifically for IBM NAS appliances. You must install this enhancement on the IBM
Director Management Server as well as all IBM Director Consoles. You can add
dynamic NAS groups to the IBM Director Server and Consoles by downloading the
InstallShield extension from the IBM Web site and invoking the executable file. This
will create a new Group on all consoles that represent IBM NAS appliances in the
managed network.
Dynamic groups are automatically populated and maintained based on queries to
the database. These dynamic NAS groups must be added after the IBM Director
Management Server has been installed on a dedicated server. IBM NAS appliances
appear under the Groups column in the IBM Director Management Server. The
Group Contents column will then contain all the IBM NAS devices that have been
discovered on the network.

NAS Web UI task

NAS Web UI is an IBM Director Management Server enhancement made
specifically for managed networks containing IBM NAS appliances. Install NAS Web
UI on the IBM Director Management Server and all IBM Director Consoles to create
a new task called IBM NAS Appliances with a subtask named Launch UI Web.
You can apply this new Console task to a NAS machine, causing a Web browser to
be automatically launched with a URL pointing to the Web UI on the target NAS
machine. The port specified in the URL is port 8099, which invokes Windows 2000
for NAS.

Electronic Service Agent (eSA)

Electronic Service Agent optionally resides on the customer's system and works in
tandem with IBM Director to monitor events and securely transmit data to IBM on a
periodic, customer-definable timetable.
This monitor watches system inventory, hardware error logs and performance
information, and, if the server is under a service agreement or within warranty
period, automatically reports hardware problems to IBM. IBM will either contact the
customer or send out a replacement part before it fails, based on a PFA alert
received for a component under warranty. Information collected through this Service
Agent is available to IBM service support representatives while they are answering
or diagnosing problems. With early knowledge about potential problems, IBM can
provide proactive service, assisting in maintaining higher availability and
performance.
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