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Ntelligent manageability for armada portable products
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Is Intelligent Manageability based on industry standards?
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Yes. Intelligent Manageability utilizes every relevant industry standard available in the PC
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market today. This includes providing full compliance and software support for industry
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standard DMI and SNMP. However, Compaq believes that industry standards should be
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used to deliver manageability solutions that lower the cost of PC computing. While other
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PC vendors will passively support industry standards, Compaq uses those standards to
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deliver real solutions.
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For example, in order to generate SMART hard drive pre-failure notifications Compaq uses
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the SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) or IntelliSafe industry
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standard. Other vendors support this technology, but only Compaq uses SMART to actually
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predict hard drive failures. In addition, Compaq's AssetControl Monitors have been
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designed to conform to VESA's Display Data Channel (DDC) specification. Using this
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technology, Compaq monitors can report asset information as well as any thermal or
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operational faults.
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This argument can be used for DIMM AssetControl information and Memory Change
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Alerts; both utilize the Serial Presence Detect Standard. In addition, the Management
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Solutions Partners Program provides de facto standard support for AssetControl, because
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this feature is supported across a broad range of PC LAN management applications. No
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proprietary software is needed to manage Armada portable PCs over the network because
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Compaq supports all the leading off-the-shelf management applications.
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Finally, other PC vendors will say that Intelligent Manageability is proprietary. From the
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above discussion it should be clear that Intelligent Manageability is based on industry
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standards. It should also be clear that these vendors use the "proprietary" message to cover
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for the fact that Intelligent Manageability significantly surpasses all other manageability
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solutions on the market and, thus, provides the most help in lowering the cost of PC
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computing. Some PC vendors even hide proprietary features and software behind a cloud
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of DMI Compliance when, in reality, these features have nothing to do with DMI.
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What are the new features of Intelligent Manageability for Armada portable PCs?
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The new Insight Management Agent Version 3.50 includes the following new features:
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DMI 2.0 compliance
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Battery Charge Fault Alert
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Battery Failure Alert
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Battery Asset Management (AssetControl)
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Monitor Fault Diagnosis:
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Monitor Thermal Alert
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Monitor Operational Alerts (horizontal and vertical deflection)
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Monitor Asset Management (AssetControl)
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Ownership Tag (Computer Setup feature)
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Compaq Diagnostics for Windows (Compaq Insight Personal Edition) is also part of the
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Intelligent Manageability solution.
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Please, see the Availability Matrix for more details on Intelligent Manageability support.
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