IBM Netfinity 5100 8658 21Y, Manual

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v DMI Browser (requires DMI Service Layer)
v ECC Memory Setup (requires ECC memory)
v Predictive Failure Analysis (requires a PFA-enabled hard
disk drive)
v RAID Manager (requires a RAID hard disk drive
subsystem)
v System Partition Access (requires a built-in System
Partition)
v
Update Connector Manager (available only on systems
running Windows NT 4.0 or later)
Brief descriptions of each of the Netfinity Manager services
follow. Complete instructions on how to use each of these
services can be found in the service-specific chapters of
the
Netfinity Manager User’s Guide .
Advanced System Management
The Advanced System Management service provides
extensive functionality available for your IBM PC Server
Advanced System Management Adapter, Netfinity
Advanced System Management PCI Adapter, or Netfinity
Advanced System Management Processor. With the
Advanced System Management service, you can configure
system management events (such as POST, loader, and
operating system time-outs or critical temperature, voltage,
and tamper alerts). If any of these events occurs, the
Advanced System Management service can be configured
to use a modem or your Netfinity Manager system to
automatically forward a Netfinity alert to other Netfinity
Manager systems or to a numeric or alphanumeric pager.
Alert Manager
The Alert Manager is an extendable facility that allows
receiving and processing of application-generated alerts. A
variety of actions can be taken in response to alerts,
including logging alerts, notifying the user, forwarding the
alert to another system, executing a program, playing a
WAV file (available only on multimedia systems),
generating an SNMP alert message, dialing out to a digital
pager service (available only on systems that have a
modem), or taking an application-defined action. Actions
are user-definable, using a flexible action management
interface.
Also, an extensive, detailed log is kept of all alerts
received by the Alert Manager. Logged information
includes date and time the alert was received, type and
severity of the alert, the ID of the application that
generated the alert, as well as any text that was generated
and any action taken by the Alert Manager. Individual or
multiple alerts can be selected from the log and printed for
Netfinity Manager
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