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Chapter 6. Netfinity Manager

Netfinity Manager is a group of distributed applications designed to enhance the
hardware systems-management capabilities of a network. Netfinity Manager has a
flexible, modular design that allows for a variety of system-specific installations.
Each of these installation configurations provides a set of Netfinity Manager
services that enables you to perform, locally, a variety of powerful hardware
systems-management and monitoring functions.

Netfinity Manager provides powerful hardware systems-management capabilities,
including access to all systems on the network that are running Netfinity Manager
or Client Services for Netfinity Manager. In addition to all standard Client Services
for Netfinity Manager functions, Netfinity Manager also features bidirectional file and
directory transfers, remote screen captures, and remote command-line sessions.
Netfinity Manager also enables you to export data collected by System Information
Tool, System Profile, Software Inventory, and System Monitor to a DB2, Lotus
Notes, or SQL or DB2 via an open database connectivity (ODBC) database (ODBC
export is available on Windows NT systems only). Finally, Netfinity Manager
enables some services to be started at scheduled times and dates for simplified,
automated systems management.

Netfinity Manager also provides two powerful features that enable you to access
the Netfinity Manager system and all Netfinity Manager systems in the managing
system network from a system that is not attached to the managing system
network:

Serial Connection Control

Use the Serial Connection Control service to use a Netfinity Manager system
modem to establish a connection with any Netfinity Manager system that has a
modem. Once this connection is established, the Netfinity Manager has full
access to Netfinity Manager services, just as though the remote system were
part of the managing system network.

Netfinity Manager for Web

The Netfinity Manager for Web enables access and remote control of the
Netfinity Manager system over the Internet, using any system that has an
Internet connection and a World Wide Web (WWW) browser. With the Netfinity
Manager for Web, the Netfinity Manager systems can be accessed and
managed from anywhere in the world.

Managing your IBM Netfinity server with Netfinity Manager

The copy of Netfinity Manager that is included with the IBM Netfinity 4000R entitles
you to one Netfinity Manager installation. You are also entitled to additional
installations of Client Services for Netfinity Manager. To use Netfinity Manager to
monitor and manage this IBM appliance, install Netfinity Manager on a system in
your network that you will use as a system-management console, and then install
Client Services for Netfinity Manager on your IBM Netfinity 4000R. You can also
install additional copies of Client Services for Netfinity Manager on other systems in
your network. Furthermore, additional Netfinity Manager and Client Services for
Netfinity Manager licenses are available for purchase from your IBM representative.

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