Benefits - HP xw4300 Technical White Paper

manner they surface the instrumented data to applications. This approach has made integration of
advanced management features into commercial management software slow, and development of
feature-rich custom-developed management applications difficult to accomplish.
Recognizing the need for a better solution, HP has developed the HP Client Management Interface.
HP CMI provides a zero-footprint, programmatic interface built on industry standards that systems
management tools and custom management applications can access to gather inventory information,
heath alerts, and manage BIOS configuration.

Benefits

HP business-class client computers equipped with HP Client Management Interface technology provide
an unprecedented level of out-of-the-box management capability. HP CMI provides the following
benefits:
Flexible and open
• Built on industry standards for gathering inventory and health status information.
• Simple and scriptable instrumentation allows IT professionals to easily integrate with existing
management tools or develop custom management applications.
• Client computer instrumentation can be made available to a central management console
application and/or locally at the client computer.
• Computer health events are sent in real-time — no waiting for the management agent to poll for
client status.
Consistent
• Provides a common interface to management information across HP business-class client computers
equipped with HP CMI.
• Provides a stable foundation to future hardware management features.
• Interface behavior is consistent between 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows, and the next
version of the Windows operating system.
Easy to manage
• No software agent is required to access client computer inventory information, health status and
manage BIOS configuration.
• New client computers seamlessly integrate into the managed environment without re-tooling
management software.
• Leverages operating system policies for configuration and security.
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