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Compaq Extends LTE 5000 Family of Personal Computers
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Intelligent Manageability
The LTE 5000 product family will join the Compaq desktop and server families in offering the
advantages of the Compaq brand of PC management called Intelligent Manageability. Intelligent
Manageability features make networked PCs easier to manage and less expensive to own by
providing features organized or classified in the areas of asset management, security management
and fault management. The LTE 5000 is DMI compliant as certified by the Desktop Management
Task Force. DMI compliance solidifies Compaq’s commitment to support the benefits of PC
management as an integral part of today’s total distributed enterprise.
1. The asset management component of Intelligent Manageability provides companies with an
efficient networked inventory of PC hardware and software to help manage a large installation
of notebooks. This is achieved through the Compaq Insight Manager or similar industry
standard network management software to support features such as serial number
identification, ROM level identification, and a record of system configuration, etc.
2. The security management component consists of hardware and software security provisions
that protect and deter unauthorized access to data or hardware. These features are already a
part of every LTE 5000 notebook. For example, power on passwords can be invoked to secure
unauthorized access to data from the notebook. Several physical security measures such as
notebook, hard drive and MultiBay device locking provisions further protect the user from
unauthorized access or the removal of data or hardware.
3. Through fault management, all LTE 5000 models are capable of being monitored on the
network for temperature changes in case the notebook reaches a critical threshold, in which
case both the notebook and network administrators will be notified of an impending critical
condition. With planned availability in the third quarter, hard drives that support fault
prediction capabilities that provide alerts prior to failure to initiate such protective measures as
proactive tape backup when connected to the network.
Intelligent Manageability features will be available in the third quarter at no charge for LTE 5000
users with upgrades on SoftPaq, Compaq’s Internet home page (http://www.compaq.com), and on
the Compaq forums on America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy.
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