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directly access and control a remote system’s ASMA card over the Serial
Connection Control service.
In addition, Service Processor Manager enables you to remotely monitor, record,
and replay all textual data generated by a remote system during POST. While
monitoring a remote system during POST, you can enter key commands on your
keyboard which will then be relayed to the remote system.
5.3.5.20 System Diagnostics Manager
The System Diagnostics Manager lets you initiate a variety of diagnostic tasks on
systems that support ROM based diagnostics. The results of all previously run
diagnostic sessions are stored on the system and can be examined using System
Diagnostics Manager to help diagnose and resolve system problems. The System
Diagnostics Manager can run diagnostics on any of the following system
components:
• System Board
• Memory
• Keyboard
• Video
• Diskette
• Alternate (second) CPU
• Parallel
•Serial
• Ethernet
•SCSI
•RAID
• Mouse
Currently, the only systems supporting this feature are the following:
• IBM PC Server 325 (Pentium II models)
• IBM PC Server 330 (Pentium II models and the 8640-PM0 model)
5.3.5.21 Software Inventory
Enables you to make an inventory of software products installed on the system.
You can also manage software product dictionaries, to define products that are
not in the default dictionary. You can define these products based on the
SYSLEVEL, or on a file name.
5.3.5.22 System Information Tool
The System Information Tool enables you to quickly and conveniently access
detailed information on the hardware and software configurations of your system.
System Information Tool gathers information about almost any computer;
however, the most detail is provided when this service is used with IBM
computers. This service is available for both stand-alone and network use.
5.3.5.23 System Monitor
The System Monitor provides a convenient method of charting and monitoring the
activity of a number of components in a system, including processor usage, disk
space used, and ECC memory errors. These convenient monitors are detachable
and scalable, enabling you to keep only the monitors you need available at all
times. You can use System Monitor's Threshold Manager to set threshold levels
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