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HP OpenView Network Node Manager Special Editi on (NNM SE) enhances your capa-
bility to monitor and manage Dell®PowerEdge® servers running Novell® NetWare®
and Microsoft® Windows NT® operating systems with Dell OpenManageTM Hard-
ware Instrumentation Package (HIP) 2.2 or later. HP OpenView NNM SE also
manages other Dell systems with the Dell Inspector and can be used to manage non-
Dell systems.
Through management instrumentation of hardware components specific to Dell sys-
tems, HP OpenView NNM SE allows you to access status information about Dell
PowerEdge servers as well as Dell PowerEdge Scalable Disk System 100 (SDS 100)
storage systems. You can also monitor desktop, workstation, and portable
computers.
For Dell PowerEdge servers equipped with Dell Remote Assistant Cards (DRA C), Dell
HIP supports out-of-band (via dial-up modem or network interface controller [NIC])
status retrieval and management operations.
The HP online manual,
Using Network Node Manager Special Edition
,
contains infor-
mation on installing, setting up, and troub le shooting the NNM SE software. This
manual with the filename nnmseug.pdf can be found in the elecdocs directory on
the
HP OpenView Network Node Manager Special Edition CD,
which also contains
additional hardware component user’s guides. The
HP OpenView NNM SE 1.2 With
Dell OpenManage HIP 3.2 User’s Guide
can also be found in the elecdocs directory
under the filename hipitg.pdf.

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The HP OpenView NNM SE with Dell HIP consists of the following components:
Managed nodes for Windows NT and NetWare
Management station for Windows NT
Remote console for Windows NT