HP Compaq NC4000 Manuel du propriétaire

HP Client Manager 6.1

Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 2

New Features in HPCM 6.1 .............................................................................................................. 4

Understanding how HPCM works ...................................................................................................... 6

Extensive reporting capability............................................................................................................ 7

HPCM in operation.............................................................................................................................. 7

Client inventory................................................................................................................................ 7

Health monitoring ............................................................................................................................ 8

Diagnostics ..................................................................................................................................... 9

Updating system software ............................................................................................................... 10

BIOS settings ................................................................................................................................. 11

HPCM installation and evaluation........................................................................................................ 13

Integration with other Enterprise Management Solutions ......................................................................... 14

Altiris Connector for HP Systems Insight Manager .............................................................................. 14

Altiris Connector for HP OpenView .................................................................................................. 14

HP Client Management Solutions......................................................................................................... 15

Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 15

For more information.......................................................................................................................... 16

Introduction

Today’s complex client/server computing environments can contain hundreds, if not thousands, of

client computers such as workstations, business PCs, and notebooks. Managing the hardware and

software on client computers can be challenging and often requires that each computer be visited

individually for tasks such as upgrading the BIOS firmware or performing diagnostics. It’s often

difficult to keep track of the computer hardware deployed within the enterprise as well as the version

of the operating system installed on each client computer.

To help solve these problems, Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) and Altiris, Inc., have developed HP

Client Manager Software 6.1 (HPCM 6.1). HPCM is a free hardware management tool that allows

HP workstations, business PCs, and notebook computers running Microsoft Windows to be efficiently

managed from a central location.

Figure 1 shows HP workstations, business PCs, and notebook computers connected to a Microsoft

Windows 2000 server or Microsoft Windows 2003 server running HPCM. This server is called the

HPCM Server. All operations are performed on the HPCM Server through the Altiris Console window,

which allows local or remote Web-based operation. From the Altiris Console window, you can obtain

information from and perform operations on the client computers.

Figure 1. HP workstations, business PCs, and notebook computers connected to a Microsoft Windows 2000 server or Microsoft

Windows 2003 server running HPCM 6.1

There are three classes of information that you can obtain from the client computers.

•Client inventory: Includes detailed client information such as the chassis serial number, computer

model number, memory size, operating system, CPU identification, and many more inventory items.

With HPCM 6.1, you can even gather basic information for your non-HP client computers.

•Health monitoring: The health monitoring capabilities of HPCM allow you to select from a set of

client-side events, such as a chassis intrusion, disk drive error, battery status, thermal changes, and

“walking assets” such as new or missing PCs, memory, battery, disk drives, CPUs, and monitors.

When one of these events occurs, the client alerts the HPCM Server, which takes the predefined

action that you have specified, such as sending you an e-mail alert. You can also monitor the status

of these events using one of the pre-configured reports.

•Diagnostic information: Client diagnostics are performed on the memory, CPU, storage devices,

and I/O devices. The diagnostic results are returned from each client computer to the HPCM Server

for display.

With HPCM, the user can perform the following types of operations on the client computers from the

Altiris Console on the HPCM Server.

System software installation: HPCM allows you to install or update system software on the client

computers from a central Filestore on the HPCM Server. Software installations are performed only

on those client computers that match the hardware and software criteria that you specify. For

example, you can download a network driver or audio driver SoftPaq to the HPCM Server and then

use HPCM to schedule the installation of the drivers on the client computers. HPCM will install the

drivers only on those client computers that contain hardware supported by each particular driver.

SoftPaqs

SoftPaqs are Web-downloadable software packages made available by HP

to ensure that our customers have the most up-to-date and highest-quality

system software. Normally, a SoftPaq would be downloaded to each client

machine and installed separately. With HPCM, SoftPaq installation can be

configured to happen automatically and remotely across all client

computers.

BIOS Flash: HPCM can be used to upgrade the BIOS firmware on client computers. HPCM can

automatically and remotely update the BIOS on any client computer. You can use it to flash a single

computer or a group of computers. It also allows you to view reports for computers not receiving

updates or to see where installation failed.

Manage HP ProtectTools enabled clients: Identify and inventory HP client computers that

include the ProtectTools embedded security chip. Use the HP Client Manager console to remotely

initialize the security chip on your computers, saving time in setting-up a more secure client

infrastructure. Note: This requires HPCM 6.1 SP1.

Change BIOS settings: When booting a computer you can press the F10 key to pause the boot

process in order to change the BIOS settings, such as the Storage Options or the Boot Order, as

shown in Figure 2. After Microsoft Windows has booted on the client computers, you can use

HPCM to change the BIOS settings simultaneously on multiple client computers without having to

visit each computer individually.

Figure 2. Manually changing BIOS settings using the F10 key.

These capabilities make it clear that the key benefit of HPCM is increased productivity. By quickly

gathering information from all of your HP client computers, rapidly making changes to client computer

system software, and changing the BIOS settings, all from a central location, you’ll be much more

productive in managing your HP client computers. Furthermore, HPCM provides a rich set of

customizable reporting tools so you can display exactly the information you need to manage your

client computers. Combined, these capabilities translate into greater efficiencies and lower IT costs.

To better understand the capabilities of HPCM and how it works, you are encouraged to download

and install HPCM 6.1 from the Altiris website at www.altiris.com/eval.

New Features in HPCM 6.1

•Improved BIOS information collection – BIOS date, version number, SysID, etc.

•Improved BIOS Settings Wizard lets you remotely set most BIOS settings that are currently available

via F10 Setup on client systems such as Remote Wakeup Boot Source, enable/disable serial ports,

boot order, etc.

•Integration with HP Instant Support

–Run a system health scan that checks your computers for hardware issues tracked by the HP

Instant Support knowledgebase. Scan results identify HP SoftPaqs posted on hp.com needed to

resolve the issues.

–Point-and-click to select and download SoftPaqs. A SoftPaq package is dynamically created that

can be scheduled for delivery to your computers.

–Perform diagnostics on computer components and view reports of test results.

–Connect to an HP Support Representative through an Active Chat session if needed or link to the

HP Instant Support knowledgebase for more information.

•In addition to receiving hardware alerts at the management console, the IT Administrator now has

the option to enable alerts to be displayed locally on the user's computer. These alerts include asset

changes, low free disk space, hardware health, and low battery.

•Collection of basic inventory extended to include non-HP computers. Information collected includes

manufacturer, OS, language, processor, memory, and free disk space.

•HP Tool Update Wizard provides an easy method to keep the HP tool components (e.g. SSM,

Diagnostics) used in HP Client Manager up-to-date.

•Improved WMI event handling on newer desktops and workstations (notebooks coming soon)

•Management of systems with HP ProtectTools embedded security chip (requires SP1) – Identify and

inventory HP client computers that include the ProtectTools embedded security chip. Use the HP

Client Manager console to remotely initialize the security chip on your computers saving time in

setting-up a more secure client infrastructure.

Understanding how HPCM works

Understanding HPCM is aided by viewing the HPCM client/server block diagram, shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. HPCM block diagram

The underlying infrastructure of HPCM is Notification Server 6.0 (NS 6.0). HPCM 6.1 plugs into NS

6.0, as do a number of other manageability solutions from Altiris, including Altiris Client Management

Suite and Altiris Asset Management Suite. HPCM, in concert with NS 6.0, downloads several HPCM

agents to each client computer to perform the functions shown above.

Information reported from the HPCM agents to the HPCM Server is stored in a database (Microsoft’s

SQL database or, for evaluation purposes, Microsoft’s MSDE database). This database is also used to

store the HPCM configuration information that you specify, such as the names of the client computers

to be managed. HPCM generates and displays its reports from this database. The Altiris Console

window receives its information from a Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server. The

SoftPaq Filestore is used to store the SoftPaqs that will be installed on the client computers, such as

hardware drivers and BIOS updates.

Extensive reporting capability

HPCM provides extensive and customizable reporting capabilities. You can view the standard reports

that are pre-configured with HPCM, or you can create your own customized Web reports.

HPCM in operation

This section shows HPCM in operation to more clearly demonstrate its capabilities. We’ll focus on the

some of the primary capabilities of HPCM shown in Figure 1.

Client inventory

The Altiris Console Client Inventory screen, shown below, highlights some of the inventory information

that is available from HP client computers. In this case, Machines by System ID is selected in the

left pane and the SysID for each client machine is displayed in the right pane.

Figure 4. Sample Client Inventory display

The above is a small sample of the wealth of client information provided by HPCM, which includes

detailed information down to the hardware component level.

Health monitoring

The partial screen capture below shows the events that can be selected in order to monitor the health

of your client computers. You can select the threshold values for free disk space and battery charge

level. When a selected event occurs, such as a battery fault, HPCM responds based on your

predefined notification policies. For example, you can specify that an e-mail be sent to you to alert

you to the situation.

Figure 5. Sample Health Monitoring display

Note: The number of health events that can be monitored varies by computer model.

You can also monitor the status of these events using one of the pre-configured reports. The health

monitoring capability of HPCM simplifies the task of hardware change management by alerting you

to memory changes, disk drive changes, or CPU changes. In addition to change management,

security enhancements include chassis intrusion alerts, which may indicate the occurrence of a theft.

Diagnostics

Diagnostics are performed on the memory, CPU, storage devices and I/O devices. The partial screen

capture in Figure 6 shows a typical diagnostics report. Errors detected by the diagnostic software are

reported in the far right column (not shown in this screen shot).

Figure 6. Sample Diagnostics screen

Updating system software

HPCM allows you to configure system software such as device drivers and BIOS firmware on the

HPCM Server for downloading and installation on client computers. HPCM installs software that is

encapsulated into SoftPaqs and stored in the SoftPaq Filestore on the HPCM Server. The HP SoftPaq

Filestore Configuration screen shown below is used to enter the path to the SoftPaq Filestore.

Figure 7. System software installation sample screen

Through this mechanism, HPCM allows you to completely control which SoftPaqs are downloaded

and installed on each of your client machines.

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