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5.5 hp Device Actions
Once you have located the desired HP device, you can right click on the device to perform a variety of actions.
The actions available will vary depending on the device type. The following actions are available for most HP PCs:
• Manage Drivers/Firmware consists of distributing BIOS, agent, or driver packages to one or more Vectras,
Kayaks, or Omnibooks, scheduling the software upgrade to occur on the next reboot, and then rebooting the
system. Updating the diagnostics consists of distributing a diagnostics package using a technique similar to the
system software upgrade.
• Power On/ Power Off allows you to turn systems on and off remotely.
• pcAnywhere launches the pcAnywhere application for remote access. If you click on the pcAnywhere command
in the menu and pcAnywhere has been enabled on the remote device, toptools will launch pcAnywhere Express
and attempt to connect to the remote device. (You may need to enter a valid user and password.) If connection
to the remote device is successful, a window will be opened on your system displaying the screen for the remote
system. Refer to the Toptools online help for additional information.
• View System Performance allows you to monitor system resources. Clicking on View System Performance
opens the System Performance Analysis page for the selected device. On this page you can view the CPU,
Memory, Disk I/O, or Storage utilization and configuration for the selected device.
• Reboot allows you to restart a system remotely.
• Change Support Information allows you to update system support information.
• Set System Passwords allows you to set passwords to limit system access.
• Change Security Settings offers the administrator the option to prevent access to various hardware devices such
as removable and bootable drives, serial ports, or printer ports.
• Lock/Unlock System allows you to limit keyboard access to the system.
• Protect/Unprotect System access to the system front panel and power controls (see Figure 5-5).
• Set Identification String, also referred to as the “tattoo” string, is useful for configuring your environment to
support asset management.
• Add Printer allows you to remotely configure a printer on the system.
• e-Diagtools lets you perform system diagnostics remotely.
The most important menu item for each HP device is Properties. For PCs such as HP
Kayaks, Vectras, or Omnibooks, Property pages are generated with information collected
through a connection to a toptools agent running on the PC. Property pages are similar
for HP Kayaks, Vectras, and Omnibooks. See the section on Vectras for a more in-depth
overview of Property pages.
The remaining menu items invoke management operations such as “Reboot”, “Lock
system”, or “Manage Drivers/Firmware”. Figure 5-1 shows the screen that is displayed
after selecting the reboot menu entry.
HINT:
The Properties page is
generated on the
Toptools Server by DMI
or WMI requests to the
PC.
If the PC is down, the
Toptools Server uses
entries stored in its
database to generate a
minimal page, with only
two tabs of information.
Figure 5-1. One or more HP PCs can be rebooted.