4-6 Managing System Resources
Selecting the PC Health Meter
The PC Health meter is a traffic signal that provides a visual
indicator of workstation health.
A red light indicates that a critical system event has
occurred. You are required to fix the problem
immediately.
A yellow light or noncritical system event requires that
you monitor the situation. It may be a problem that could
get worse and become a critical event.
A green light indicates that the system is working fine.
Monitoring PC Health
PC health can be determined by monitoring various system
components for threshold levels. Some of the components
that are monitored include:
drive space
prediction of hard drive failure (Smart Hard Drive failure
prediction)
free virtual memory
temperatures
power supplies
chassis opened
GDI used
non-critical boot failure
boot virus detection.
Once a threshold level has been passed on a workstation, you
can request notification of the problem and have it written
into a log file.
