[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Zach Malone]

It depends on your motherboard.  Many boards would trigger an alarm once the
chip reached a certain temperature, and shutdown the machine entirely at
another temperature, with those temperatures being definable in the bios.
Unfortunatly, AMD machines lack said cutouts, and I dont know if the P4 has
them.  It seems to me that that qualifies as a management system.  Though I
dunno how your defining this.
    Zach
> Unfortunately they're pretty much useless as management devices.  my
> point was entirely about providing management information for alarms,
> fan control, automated cut-off (not just of the CPU, but of the entire
> system, perhaps in a controlled fashion), etc.