Intel Pro/100+ Management Adapter - HP Compaq SP750 Supplementary Manual

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Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter

Increasingly, personal computer (PC) manufacturers are equipping PCs with the capability to
generate remote system alerts. Components within these PCs or, in some cases, the PCs
themselves feature the intelligence required to identify local problems proactively and issue alerts
that report these problems to a centralized management console. Alerting technologies reduce the
cost of ownership not only by centralizing routine management functions but also by allowing
network administrators to respond to events such as boot failure, overheating, tampering, or theft
proactively before significant PC damage or loss can occur.
The Network Interface Controller (NIC) is playing an increasingly significant role in the delivery
of alerting capabilities. New, NIC-specific alerting technologies allow the NIC to receive event
information from the PC, identify a particular event, and transmit a specific alert packet
proactively to the management console.
Intel has integrated Alert on LAN (AoL) technologies into the 82559 Fast Ethernet controller
available with the new Intel PRO/100+ Management Adapter. Compaq supports both Intel's Alert
on LAN and 3Com's Remote System Alert alerting technologies on new Professional
Workstation AP550 and SP750 models.
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