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SOFTPAQ NUMBER:  SP24900
PART NUMBER: 	N/A
FILE NAME:  	SP24900.EXE.
TITLE:	Performance Management Pack
VERSION:  	2.1
LANGUAGE:  	English

CATEGORY: 	Software Solutions 

DIVISIONS:  	Systems

PRODUCTS AFFECTED: ProLiant Servers

OPERATING SYSTEM:  		Microsoft Windows server Operating System (NT4, W2K, W2K3).

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: 	N/A.

PREREQUISTES: 		Insight Manager 7 SP2.1.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  	October, 23, 2003

ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED:  Yes

SOFTPAQ UTILITY VERSION: 2.1

SUPERSEDES:  SP23568		

DESCRIPTION:	This does not create any diskette 

Enhancements/Fixes: This release includes: 
1. Expanded Hardware support to include blades, ATA drives, new servers and controllers
2. Windows 2003 support for middle-tier
3. Increased concurrent monitored servers supported beyond 2028 limit.
4. Reduction of number of events generated by consolidating state transition information.
5. Improved security for licensing and administration using IM7 login user types.
6. Logging for individual members of a drive array such that all drive data is available for extraction.


HOW TO USE:

1.  Download the SoftPaq to a directory on your hard drive and change 
to that directory.  The file that is downloaded is a self-extracting
executable.

2.  From that drive and directory, execute the downloaded file 
and follow the on-screen instructions to install.

3.  After the files have been created, you may delete the  
self-extracting file downloaded in step 1.