HP TeemTalk Terminal Emulator 7 E-License manual HP Management Server

Introduction

HP Management Server

The HP Management Server controls agents through the HP Man- agement Gateway. Tasks, stored as Task Templates on the server, can be sent to each agent through each agent’s respective gateway to per- form commands as required.

HP Management Gateway

The HP Management Gateway serves as the link between devices and the HP Management Server. Devices register with the gateway when they are started. The machine installed with the HP Manage- ment Gateway also normally contains the PXE Server installed by HP Device Manager.

Device Agent

The HP Management Agent is a software component installed on thin client devices so that HP Device Manager can interact with them. Agents are embedded into each HP operating system to enable Device Manager to manage devices out-of-the-box (however, agents on older devices may need to be upgraded). Agents get task commands, execute the commands and report on their status.

FTP Server

The FTP server is where files are stored in a repository of compo- nents, images, etc. that can be uploaded from or downloaded to the agents at the request of the HP Management Server. You can create a repository on more than one FTP server. The repository on an FTP server is referred to as the "FTP Repository" in dialogs and in this User Manual to distinguish it from the HP Management Server Repository (the "Server Repository").

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