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HP Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5.5 

 

 

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If SNMP is already installed, it will be on the Network Services list in this dialog box, and you are finished. 
If SNMP is not installed proceed with Step 3. 

Click the Add button in the Services tab panel to add the SNMP service 

 

Highlight the SNMP Service option and click OK. 

Setup will look for the SNMP service files on your hard drive. 

 

If you know that the SNMP files are not in this directory, insert the Windows NT CD and type in the correct 
path. Otherwise, accept the given path. In either case, click Continue. In the event that the files are not 
found, you will be given another chance to enter the correct path. 
 

Summary of Contents for Vectra VL410

Page 1: ...HP Toptools Deployment Guide ...

Page 2: ...sent of Hewlett Packard Company The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice Microsoft Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U S and or other countries Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation IBM and NetFinity are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation Comp...

Page 3: ...ows 2000 Manual Deployment 26 5 2 3 Windows NT 9X ME HP Toptools for Desktops Manual Deployment 31 5 2 4 Windows NT 9X ME HP Toptools for HP Omnibooks Manual Installation 40 5 3 AUTOMATED DEPLOYMENT OF HP TOPTOOLS AGENTS FROM THE HP TOPTOOLS DEVICE MANAGER 47 5 3 1 Obtaining the latest agents 47 5 3 2 Remote Agent Installation 48 5 4 CREATING AN ASSET FILE 52 5 5 INSTALLING 3RD PARTY DMI INSTRUMEN...

Page 4: ...AGING FILE SIZE 91 9 1 1 Windows NT 91 9 1 2 Windows 2000 94 9 2 INSTALLING TOPTOOLS AUTO ALERT 96 10 installing Desktop Agents in Batch Mode 105 10 1 BATCH INSTALLATION 105 10 2 SETTING UP THE DMISETUP INI OR SETUP INI CONFIGURATION FILE 105 10 2 1 The Installation Section SetupInstall 105 10 2 2 The Action Section Action 106 10 2 3 The General Information Section GeneralInfo 106 10 3 RUNNING SET...

Page 5: ...It can also manage devices from other vendors providing the manufacturer s management agents are installed on the devices HP Toptools enables efficient and automatic asset and inventory management event management remote action and control of hardware and performance monitoring of networked devices It should be noted however that while HP Toptools lets you manage devices over a network it is a dev...

Page 6: ...I SNMP WMI and WBEM data provided by agents running on managed devices and store the data in a database device manager makes the device information available in a web site HP Toptools uses modules known as plug in s These plug in s provide the linkage between device agents and the device manager Additionally this architecture allows for extensibility of HP Toptools as HP develops new hardware solu...

Page 7: ...intenance application of Service Packs Training 2 2 Planning flowchart Continue device manager installation Installation plan complete Setup SNMP Services Reboot optional Run setup from the HP Toptools CD Check the needed device components in the dialog box during the HP Toptools device manager installationn hubs and switches netserver components desktop PC s Web JetAdmin for printers To save time...

Page 8: ... device manager components selected Configure network addresses you want HP Toptools to discover Mark all discovery options Set discovery schedule with minimal impact on users If no entry default is to discover entire IP class address Enables a discovery that displays agents that may have been previously installed configured on networked devices Configure Discovery ...

Page 9: ...5 9 NT Authentication Basic or NT Challenge Response Go to agent installation Discovery configured Configure Security Is IIS installed on a FAT partition Yes Convert to NTFS Secure Socket Layer support No Yes Use Socket Layer for additional security No ...

Page 10: ...HP Toptools HP Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5 5 10 ...

Page 11: ...rent agent deployment scenarios For help on how to installed the required components please refer to the appendices section 3 2 Requirement for the HP Toptools device manager server 3 2 1 Hardware requirements Minimum requirements Dedicated Pentium 266 MHz or greater machine 128 MB RAM 2 GB NTFS hard drive Network enabled Suggested system for managing large environment If your environment contains...

Page 12: ...he Toptools CD or SP4 or SP5 To minimize reboots and potential problems answer no when prompted to reboot after SNMP service setup Apply the service pack and then reboot Always test SNMP services by stopping them restarting them and verifying the event log for any anomalies Do not setup the HP Toptools device manager on a backup domain controller or any other critical system that requires peek per...

Page 13: ...k around the need for a constant connection if the Download HP Toptools option is your preference On the HP Toptools web site http www hp com toptools select Documentation and then open the document titled How to install system software packages with HP Toptools without direct Internet access If you upgrade from an earlier version of HP Toptools backup all database files to ensure recovery in a ca...

Page 14: ... using DHCP but may not have obtained IP information from the DHCP server at the time of installation Since IP information is required this will halt the installation Although it is not recommended to install toptools onto a system using DHCP if the HP Toptools installation wizard detects the system is configured to use DHCP a warning dialog will be displayed You must install HP Toptools onto a sy...

Page 15: ...be shown again Skip will tell the Wizard to ignore the failed internet connection Cancel will exit the HP Toptools installation wizard Note If the internet connection step is skipped the databases MEDS ALERTS and RMDB will be populated with the data on the installation CD It is recommended to create and maintain a live connection to the internet in order to allow the HP Toptools installation wizar...

Page 16: ...esired integration and click Next to continue Note The workgroup node manager entry will only be displayed if hp workgroup node manager was found installed on the target system Be aware the workgroup node manager is part of the Openview Professional Suite a discontinued product For information on how to integrate HP Toptools with Openview Network Node Manager refer to the HP Toptools web page at w...

Page 17: ... dialog will be displayed requesting information for the module Step 10 Package download disk space If the HP Toptools installation wizard is run as a web download then after all component selections have been made the wizard will check the HP Toptools system for the required disk space needed to download all required selected software packages ...

Page 18: ...be created on the local system You may specify a different user account to use If the account specified already exists you will be prompted to supply the password for that account The toptools admin domain user account You are prompted with a dialog asking for the password to be used with the default domain user account toptools admin If the HP Toptools system is a member of a domain a drop down l...

Page 19: ...isting domain groups toptools toptools operators and toptools admins will be added to the local groups under the same name If the target system is a member of a workgroup the local groups defined from toptools 5 0 will remain and be used by HP Toptools The HP Toptools installation wizard will configure toptools directory security using the locally defined toptools toptools operators and toptools a...

Page 20: ...this dialog if you are only uninstalling software Select Next to continue Step 14 Download software packages If the HP Toptools installation wizard is run as a web download then the download of all required selected software takes place next A dialog will inform you of the status of the download If you opt to Cancel the download a dialog that points you to the toptools website to order a CD is sho...

Page 21: ...ent you with two or three choices If the failed component was a required component or the HP Toptools device manager you are asked to retry or cancel If the failed component was any other component you can retry cancel or skip retry will re run the install of the failed component a repeated try of a component install will sometimes be successful skip will simply skip over the failed component and ...

Page 22: ...d You can still check for the latest patches updates at a later time from the maintenance setup dialog Step 20 Advanced configuration Following the check for patches is a question asking if you would like to perform advanced configuration for toptools Advanced configuration consists of supplying read community names passwords for routers and other devices specifying which subnets to discover sched...

Page 23: ...HP Toptools HP Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5 5 23 Step 21 Installation complete After advanced discovery the installation complete dialog is displayed ...

Page 24: ...urrent installation of toptools This maintenance dialog is invoked though the Add Remove Programs applet Selecting modify will display the component selection dialog discussed above with those components currently installed pre checked Pressing Next from the component selection dialog will install those components selected that were not already installed and will uninstall those deselected compone...

Page 25: ...dows XP that do not have agents installed will have two slashes in the WBEM column This is useful for determining which version of the HP Toptools agent needs to be deployed to device Please refer to Appendix C HP Toptools Desktop Agents Matrices for the proper agents to install for each type of HP desktop device Note Only HP Toptools 4 5 and higher agents are Y2K compliant 5 2 Installation of HP ...

Page 26: ...the Toptools Device Manager for agent deployment to machines running Windows NT or 2000 Upgrade agents on W9X Windows NT or 2000 machines Use of a software distribution tool such as HP Openview DTA or Microsoft SMS Create a package and distribute agents in mass 5 2 2 Windows 2000 Manual Deployment HP Toptools utilizes the WMI protocol to manage Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems whether they are ...

Page 27: ...ome Screen The Welcome Screen shows the version of the HP Toptools agent Click Next to continue License Agreement The next screen is the license agreement Read the license agreement select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click on Next to continue ...

Page 28: ... This screen allows for the entry of user information Enter the system location and the user phone number and click on Next to continue Asset Information The following screen allows for the entry of the system s asset information Once it is entered click on Next to continue ...

Page 29: ...ows you to select the type of agent installation The complete installation the default value The one option if custom installation is selected is the installation of the local agent user interface If the agent has already been installed this screen will allow the agent to be modified repaired or removed ...

Page 30: ...n 5 5 30 Installation Confirmation Once the installation type is selected the installation confirmation screen is displayed This is the last opportunity to change any options before the installation starts Click on Install to finish the installation ...

Page 31: ...owing o Microsoft Windows NT 4 0 SP4 SP5 or SP6A o Windows 95 with OSR 2 1 build 1214 or higher o Windows 98 through Second Edition o Windows ME o Windows XP 16 MB free disk space IP or IPX protocol stack installed and configured Local administrator privileges Agent Installation The DMI agent are located on the HP Toptools CD or from the HP Toptools web site at http www hp com toptools The HP Topt...

Page 32: ...Welcome Screen Click on Next to continue Temporary Files Directory The installation wizard needs to de compress the installation files Select a directory for these files which can be manually deleted after a successful installation Click on Next to continue ...

Page 33: ...en de compressed into the temporary directory the Welcome screen is once again displayed Click on Next to continue License Agreement The next screen is the license agreement Read the license agreement select I accept the terms in the license agreement and click on Next to continue ...

Page 34: ...adme file This file contains the latest software information and release notes Review the notes and click on Next to continue Agent Installation Folder This screen shows the directory that the HP Toptools for Desktop DMI agent will be installed in The default directory is C DMI Once the directory is confirmed click on Next to continue ...

Page 35: ... are further options to install the local user interface the HP Soft Power Down utility or the SMSWin utility The HP Soft Power Down utility powers off a Windows NT system after it reaches the Safe to Shutdown screen The SMSWin utility allows Microsoft SMS to collect additional HP specific information during inventory data collection Once any options are selected click on Next to install the HP To...

Page 36: ... Guide Version 5 5 36 Installation Completion The installation complete screen is displayed after the agent has been fully installed The HP Toptools info wizard allows the entry of user and asset information Click on Finish to continue ...

Page 37: ...HP Toptools Info Wizard allows the entry of the optional asset and user information Click on Next to continue Asset Location and User Information This screen allows the entry of the system name system location user name and user phone number Once this information is entered click on Next to continue ...

Page 38: ... on Plug and Play operating systems with the default plug and play display driver The Monitor serial number can also be manually entered at this point as can the monitor asset number Leasing Information The last information entry screen allows the entry of Software image leasing contract and leasing expiration information Resource monitoring can also be started locally from this screen Once the in...

Page 39: ... Toptools for Desktops agent There is also an option to start the local user interface for the agent to verify the information HP Toptools Local Interface This is the first screen of the local HP Toptools Interface Both the automatically retrieved and the manually entered system information is shown on this screen This confirms that the installation of the HP Toptools for Desktops DMI agent was su...

Page 40: ...Omnibook mobile computers The same software can be downloaded from http www hp com toptools Note If you have HP Omnibooks that were purchased prior to January 1998 you should check the Omnibook support web site at http www hp com go omnibooksupport The notebook matrix may be obtained from http www hp com toptools rvm omnibook html Please note however agents prior to version 4 1 are not Y2K complia...

Page 41: ...yment Guide Version 5 5 41 Installation Wizard Follow the instructions on the standard screens as you advance through the installation The next three screens provide licensing and product information including the Readme First file ...

Page 42: ...HP Toptools HP Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5 5 42 Directory Selection Accept the default directory for the agents or you may designate a different directory ...

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Page 44: ... component HP Toptools local graphical user interface this is the application loaded on the local machine and provides local access to HP Toptools information for the specific device that it is loaded on SmsWin this should be marked if you have Microsoft SMS and want to export inventory data to Microsoft SMS and or want to install the HP Toptools for SMS enterprise integration product HP Toptools ...

Page 45: ...uct like DTA or SMS you will need to provide this information later in one of two ways You may enter the information at each PC locally one at a time using the local HP Toptools interface or You may enter the information remotely using HP Toptools Device Manager Asset Information The serial number is automatically coded on newer machines For older machines you will get a screen asking for the seri...

Page 46: ...is screen File Copy After the Serial Number and Asset Number are entered the setup wizard copies the required files to the destination directory At this point the installation is complete Verify Installation Open the local Toptools viewer to verify that the installation has succeeded To access the local Toptools select StartÆHP Toptools for Notebooks Æ HP Toptools You should see a screen with basi...

Page 47: ...umn appearing in the Device Selector screen may have agents pushed to them These machines must be part of the same Windows Domain as the Toptools Device Manager that the agents are being installed from All machines can be updated using the Manage Drivers Firmware option The machines receiving the agents must have administrator passwords stored in the Toptools database or have no administrator pass...

Page 48: ...e type of agent to deploy from the Agent Deployment sub menu Note HP Toptools agents will not install on unsupported systems If you don t know the system type of an individual system the wrong agent will not be installed Upgrading existing HP Toptools agents remotely follows the same process as installing the HP Toptools agents except that Manage Drivers Firmware needs to be selected instead of Ag...

Page 49: ...ing on the Advanced Button One of the options is to retrieve asset user and leasing information from an Asset File Details on the asset file can be found in the following section Setting up a data input Asset File Once any options are configured click on Next to continue Agent Download If the selected agent has not been downloaded to the HP Toptools device manager it will connect to the HP FTP sit...

Page 50: ...ages that can be installed locally and remotely The HP Toptools Agent remotely deployable and is ready to be installed Click on Next to continue Installation Scheduling The agent installation can be initiated immediately or can be scheduled up to 1 week in advance Select the installation time and click on Next to continue ...

Page 51: ... 5 5 51 Agent Installation Review At this point the HP Toptools Device Manager is ready to start installing the agent Click Finish to install the agents Once the installation is complete an alert will be created and sent to the HP Toptools alert log ...

Page 52: ... which you will supply the values of the attributes later There is only one attribute that must have a value Network Address This attribute is used to match each PC with the list of selected PCs for this action It must be an IP address Other attributes can be omitted but the variable positions must be preserved with commas Var1 Var2 Var5 Omitted variables will be given default values The second an...

Page 53: ... Desktops Agent 4 0 or higher Logon ID with administrator privileges 5 5 3 Installation Run setup95 exe or setupnt exe Reboot your machine Verify the installation 1 Open the Task Manager 2 Check to see that LAN_AC32 exe is in the processes list 5 6 Installing HP Toptools for Jornada PC Companions Note Stop monitoring services such as virus scanning during the installation process Do not use accent...

Page 54: ...file PCCompanion exe execute it This will extract all files and launch the installation Destination Location This screen should indicate the correct installation directory Clicking Next will install the files Re dock your Jornada Companion You will need to resynchronize your Jornada PC Companion to update the Toptools database Also note that you will be prompted for the serial and model numbers th...

Page 55: ...cts this information from all the Jornada PC Companions on your network 5 7 Windows Based Terminals The process to setup Windows Based Terminals for manageability is accomplished through a firmware update This is the same process as upgrading the HP Toptools agents on a PC except that for a Windows Based Terminal system firmware will be selected instead of an HP Toptools Agent See the HP Toptools ...

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Page 57: ... although you may do so if you choose to Different packages are available for installation on Netservers running Windows 2000 Windows NT NetWare Linux and SCO For Windows NT and Novell NetWare the DMI software is also installed during the Netserver Agents installation Installing the Netserver Agent also allows the optional installation of Instant Toptools Warning Stop monitoring services such as v...

Page 58: ... use the Add button to select the servers for the agent installation Some of the servers listed may not be HP Netservers Do not select a non HP server for installation of the NP Netserver Agents The following screen allows you to install specific agents to monitor specific components on your Netservers The default is that all agents are enabled you may disable agents for devices you do not want to...

Page 59: ...ave the latest agents Setup can be run from Windows 2000 or Windows NT systems If you try to run setup from a Windows 95 98 or ME client you will receive the error message netapi32 dll not found The Netserver Agents are supported on the following NOS Versions NetWare 4 2 NetWare 5 1 Starting Installation Execute the self extracting file from any directory and run setup exe You should get a window ...

Page 60: ...his approach does not find all your NW servers you can click the Manually Add NW Servers button to gain the ability to type the NW server names in the left hand text box Once all the servers on which you want to install Netserver Agents are listed in the right hand text box click Install to Servers Verify that you have installed agents to all the NW servers If the list is correct click Finish Rebo...

Page 61: ...e on which you will install the software Select Floppy Disk Drive 0 as the media device Insert into drive A the tar format HP Netserver Agents for SCO UNIX Server Disk you created earlier from the HP Netserver Navigator CD ROM and press Enter Select Full installation and press Enter 5 You will see the message Extracting files When prompted for the Volume 2 diskette remove the Volume 1 diskette and...

Page 62: ...rnel go to the link below http www redhat com support docs howto kernel upgrade kernel upgrade html For information about how to upgrade the RPM package go to the link below http www redhat com support errata RHEA 2001 016 html Installation Details 1 For RPM based distributions only e g Red Hat and SuSE when updating the Netserver Agents package remove the old package before proceeding with the in...

Page 63: ... yy_zzz i386 rpm 8 Register the SNMP daemon for automatic execution sbin chkconfig snmpd on 9 Start the SNMP daemon sbin service snmpd start 10 No system reboot is necessary For SuSE 1 Download the zip file containing the appropriate Netserver Agents installation files for your version of Linux the installation files are separated in directories named by distribution version 2 Expand the zip file ...

Page 64: ...the installation files are separated in directories named by distribution version 2 Expand the zip file containing the Netserver Agents to a temporary location on your Linux system for example tmp unzip o name_of_the_package d tmp E g unzip o customer zip d tmp 3 Install the UCD SNMP packages dpkg i G tmp libsnmp base_4 2 1 4_all deb dpkg i G tmp libsnmp4 2_4 2 1 4_i386 deb dpkg i G tmp snmp_4 2 1...

Page 65: ...o service_name pid process id is running For SuSE sbin init d service_name status The system replies with No process if the service is not running OK if the service is running For Debian ps axo command grep service_name The command will output the service name if it s running nothing otherwise Uninstall For distributions based on RPM If you wish to remove the Netserver Agents from your system exec...

Page 66: ...g P agents lx dpkg P hpserver core Notice that the hpserver core package may be in use by other HP products and if so the last command will tell you and will not uninstall the package No reboot is necessary The uninstall of the Netserver Agents does not remove the history data files from your computer enabling the Agents to keep historic information after a package upgrade ...

Page 67: ...tility HP Software Update Utility is used to update the firmware of newer HP ProCurve networking devices Older networking devices may be updated with the Download Manager The Toptools Device Manager will select the appropriate utility for the selected device The Toptools agents for hubs and switches reside in firmware on the devices The Software Update Utility is launched from the Toptools Device ...

Page 68: ...icking on either the Download Manager or the Software Update Utility link will start that utility Update System Software This screen will show the networking device and the firmware version Selecting the Get Latest Support Info button will connect to the website to download the latest version of the firmware Download Software If the firmware is not found on the Toptools server it needs to be downl...

Page 69: ...HP Toptools HP Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5 5 69 Licensing Agreement At this point the licensing agreement screen is displayed Accept the agreement and click on OK to continue ...

Page 70: ...ew Software Selection After the software has been downloaded a software selection review screen is presented Click on Next to continue Schedule Installation The installation can be started immediately or it can be scheduled to happen at some point in the future ...

Page 71: ...Version 5 5 71 Installation Scheduled At this point the installation is scheduled To view the results of the installation review the alert log Verify Installation Open the alert log after the installation has been performed to view the results ...

Page 72: ...does not refer to downloading files from the Internet In order for the Download Manager to perform its task it must have knowledge of the most current firmware It will look for this information on the CD ROM drive where it expects to find the most recent Toptools Hubs Switches CD You must have populated this directory with the appropriate firmware which you can download from the HP web site The si...

Page 73: ...ists the devices you selected in the example here there is only one along with the version numbers of the firmware currently loaded on each Compare this version number with the version available for downloading If the versions are the same you need not proceed further If the Download Version is older than the Current Version you probably have an outdated CD in your drive Do not proceed If the Down...

Page 74: ...ity name you enter must be valid for all of them Download package Click the Download button and when prompted enter the drive letter designation of the computer s CD drive if the firmware files have already been copied to the correct directory on your hard drive you will not be prompted This screen asks for the HP Toptools CD note that it is really referencing the Toptools for Hubs and Switches CD...

Page 75: ...that is already there do so As the Download Manager works it displays a dialog box that shows the progress of the operation If it encounters a problem it will complete the downloading of the file in progress and then stop If you want to stop the downloading at any time you can click the Stop button ...

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Page 77: ...HP Toptools HP Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5 5 77 Appendices ...

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Page 79: ...is required for The Toptools Device Manager All Netservers Any network workstation where you want to run Toptools Auto alert It is recommended that you install SNMP services on all desktops notebooks and palmtops as well Doing so will help with device identification during the discovery process The procedure described below is the same for all Windows NT devices Select Properties to open the Netwo...

Page 80: ...in the Services tab panel to add the SNMP service Highlight the SNMP Service option and click OK Setup will look for the SNMP service files on your hard drive If you know that the SNMP files are not in this directory insert the Windows NT CD and type in the correct path Otherwise accept the given path In either case click Continue In the event that the files are not found you will be given another...

Page 81: ...ty names security tab for this device Entry here is optional Security will default to the community name public unless otherwise stated Do not reboot at this time If you are running any operating system other than Windows NT answer Yes You are finished If you are running Windows NT respond to this screen by selecting No You must next reapply Service Pack 4 5 or 6A and you will reboot after you do ...

Page 82: ... SP5 and SP6A Find the Windows NT service pack You may find that the NT service pack has been already copied to your hard drive c winnt i386 On the Toptools CD the Service Pack files can be found in the directory Nt4sp Run the Update program In this example the service pack is being installed from a local directory Run Update exe to apply the service pack You may have to tell the installation prog...

Page 83: ...HP Toptools HP Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5 5 83 Tell the program to install the Service Pack If this is the first installation of the Service Pack create an uninstall directory ...

Page 84: ... Guide Version 5 5 84 If the service pack was previously installed an Uninstall directory should already exist and you do not need to recreate one Continue through the next screens Reboot You are finished and should reboot at this time ...

Page 85: ... Services Install SNMP Open the Windows Components Wizard Select Management and Monitoring Tools and then press the Details button You do not have to check the Management and Monitoring Tools button SNMP Protocol In the Details information select Simple Network Management Protocol and mark the check box ...

Page 86: ...select the Internet Information Services Click the details button to select components of IIS Select IIS Options In the Internet Information Services components ensure that World Wide Web Server is selected The rest of the options are not required by HP Toptools 5 0 but may be useful for other applications ...

Page 87: ...le Copy Click OK on all of the dialogue boxes until Windows starts copying files Windows may require that the Windows 2000 CD ROM be inserted in the CD ROM drive SNMP Installation Complete At this point SNMP and IIS is installed Note that no reboot is required ...

Page 88: ... Open the Computer Manager or go to Control Panel Computer Management Services SNMP should be in the list of services Right click on SNMP Service and select properties SNMP Service Properties In the Agent Properties screen the contact location and types of alerts can be configured ...

Page 89: ...and trap destinations are set Finally in the Security Properties page the accepted community names are set Also this page allows the computer to only accept SNMP packets from specified hosts for added security After all of the SNMP properties are set click on OK to exit At this point SNMP and IIS are installed ...

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Page 91: ...ps You can download the latest HP Toptools Auto Alert from http www HP com toptools go to download then to Management Console the file is named ttaa41e exe and is self extracting 9 1 Installing SNMP Services and Setting the Paging File Size 9 1 1 Windows NT Review SNMP Services It is required that the SNMP Service is running on Netservers you want to manage Since the SNMP service is likely to be i...

Page 92: ...procedures in Installing SNMP Services Review Virtual Memory When the SNMP Service is installed you will need to set the size of your paging file to both a minimum and a maximum of 200 MB Open the System Properties dialog box by right clicking and selecting the Properties menu command Then select the Performance tab Click the Change button The Virtual Memory dialog box will open ...

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Page 94: ...0 MB and click OK Then you must reboot 9 1 2 Windows 2000 Review SNMP Services Open Control Panel Computer Management and select Services and Applications Check for SNMP Select Services and Applications and then Services Scroll down the list to check if SNMP is installed In this example SNMP is not installed ...

Page 95: ...ll SNMP Please see Chapter 8 Installing SNMP Services for Windows 2000 for instructions Virtual Memory Open the Systems Properties page in the Control Panel Select the Advanced Tab and then Performance Options In the Performance Options dialogue box select Change ...

Page 96: ...ols Deployment Guide Version 5 5 96 Change the Initial Size and the Maximum Size of the virtual memory and press the Set button Click on OK in all of the Windows to exit 9 2 Installing Toptools Auto Alert Find the program ...

Page 97: ...HP Toptools HP Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5 5 97 Run the installation program ...

Page 98: ...re the Toptools Management Server When prompted to enter the name of your management server enter the name of the HP Toptools Integrated device manager If you don t have HP Toptools device manager you may skip this screen by selecting Next Set the File Destination ...

Page 99: ...ols HP Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5 5 99 Set the Program Folder Setup is Complete You must check the Launch HP Toptools Auto Alert check box to launch the HP Toptools Auto Alert configuration application ...

Page 100: ...Toptools Deployment Guide Version 5 5 100 Configure Auto Alert Server List This will read the Toptools Netserver inventory list if you select Retrieve for Management Server Configure Auto Alert Adding Managed Servers ...

Page 101: ...s Manually If you prefer you can enter information manually by clicking the Add Servers Manually button You will then need to know the name of each server you wish to add to the list using either the DNS name IP or IPX address When done adding servers click OK Then review the HP Netserver information you entered in the Configuration dialog box The Alert Destination column should show SET for each ...

Page 102: ... Guide Version 5 5 102 Restart SNMP Services Restart SNMP on Windows NT and SCO UNIX servers to initiate the Auto Alert messages It is not necessary to restart NetWare servers Select Start Settings Control Panel Double click on Services ...

Page 103: ...e properly configured for Auto Alert Your HP Toptools Auto Alert installation is complete After you have installed HP Toptools Auto Alert it is auto started every time you start the PC console and you may minimize it to the task bar It is necessary for HP Toptools Auto Alert to always be running in order to receive alerts To stop HP Toptools Auto Alert simply close the application Remember that yo...

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Page 105: ...tup ini You can supply an initialization file with custom installation parameters such as whether installation should be interactive or batch By default the file names are DMISETUP INI or SETUP INI and use the syntax described below You can use the command line parameter Inifile described above to use another file name A standard initialization file called SILENT INI in the subdirectory disk1 is c...

Page 106: ...ame of the PC It is a character string that cannot exceed 64 characters This attribute is not available for the WMI agent SystemUserName The name of the primary user of the PC It is a character string that cannot exceed 64 characters This attribute is not available for the WMI agent SystemUserPhone This is the user s phone number It is a character string and has a maximum size of 64 characters Exa...

Page 107: ...s a single CSV file can be used to run on all managed PCs The syntax of the CSV file is described below Path to log file specifies the file name for the log file produced by the program The asset attributes that the Asset Configurator can set are System Name System Physical Location System User Name except on Windows 2000 System User Phone PC Asset Number Software Image Identifier Leasing Contract...

Page 108: ...e is as follows WBIOSCFG EXE PARAMFILE Path to INI file LOGFILE path to log file The format of the INI file is as follows Bios Settings Start from HDD enabled A boolean value YES or NO Start from Floppy enabled A boolean value YES or NO Start from CD enabled A boolean value YES or NO Start from Network enabled A boolean value YES or NO RPO on RWU enabled A boolean value YES or NO Floppy disk drive...

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