HP P1.4GHz/850, P933, P866 HPCM in operation, Extensive reporting capability, Client inventory

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Extensive reporting capability

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.

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Contents HP Client Manager Introduction SoftPaqs New Features in HPCM Page Figure 3. HPCM block diagram Understanding how HPCM worksExtensive reporting capability HPCM in operationClient inventory Figure 5. Sample Health Monitoring display Health monitoringFigure 6. Sample Diagnostics screen DiagnosticsFigure 7. System software installation sample screen Updating system softwareFigure 8. BIOS setting administration wizard BIOS settingsNote The BIOS settings that can be changed vary by computer model Figure 9. Changing BIOS settings Figure 10. HP Client Manager Software Quick Start page HPCM installation and evaluationAltiris Connector for HP Systems Insight Manager Integration with other Enterprise Management SolutionsAltiris Connector for HP OpenView Summary HP Client Management SolutionsFor more information