Expanding its long-standing relationship with Intel Corp, Computer Associates International says the forthcoming TNG release of its CA-Unicenter management software will take advantage of built-in board level hardware and software instrumentation in Intel Corp Pentium Pro servers to make it easier to troubleshoot across enterprise systems. CA-Unicenter TNG, which ships at the end of the year, will be able to obtain the status of a system – such as temperature and voltage – by
communicating with Intel servers through two ways: first, using desktop management interfaces (DMI) and simple network mail protocol (SNMP) based open instrumentation interfaces on Pentium systems; and second, by accessing server instrumentation through Intel’s LANDesk server monitor module and LANDesk Pro server monitor products. CA, which made the announcement at CA World in New Orleans yesterday, says systems administrators will still be able to retrieve information from systems which crash by using the Hobbes card which keeps running when the system is down; the motherboard was codenamed Calvin.
