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ASM Pro V3.3 Release Notice  11/11/98
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General Description
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Supported O.S.
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1. ASM Station : Windows 95/98 , Windows NT 4.0 workstation
2. ASM Agent   : Novell Netware 4.1, 4.11 & 5.0
                 Windows NT 4.0
                 SCO Open Server 5.0x
                 SCO Unixware 2.x, 7.0

System Requirement
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1. ASM Station
O.S.   : Windows95/98 or Windows NT 4.0
C.P.U. : 486 DX/2 66 PC system or above
Memory : 16 MB or higher
Video  : SVGA and Color Monitor
Disk   : Minimum 10 MB of HDD Space or higher
Network: Ethernet Card

2. ASM Agents
O.S.   : MS Windows NT 4.0 or above, 
         Novell Netware 4.1, 4.11 and 5.0
         SCO Unix Open Server 5.0 or above,
         SCO UnixWare 2.x and 7.0
C.P.U. : Pentium base server system or above
Memory : 16 MB or higher
Video  : SVGA and Color Monitor
Disk   : Minimum 10 MB of HDD Space or higher
Network: Ethernet Card

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Feature Change/Enhancement
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This ASM Pro V3.3 release including the following features 
enhanced from ASM Pro V3.1:

1. ASM-Station 
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a. ASM Station now has newly redesigned Trap Handling mechanism
b. ASM Station has the ability to read server system NVRAM event log
c. Minor modification on ASM charting function to make it more clear
d. support new e-mail mechanism
e. Can snap-in into CA UniCenter, HP-OpenView & Novel ManageWise
f. Can co-operate with Microsoft SMS.
g. ASM Station now support five newly designed utilities, ASM Browser, 
   Asset Manager, Event Viewer, Statistics Viewer and Hub Manager.

2. ASM-Agent 
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a. Internal Structure re-structuring to make system more stable 
b. Support new models - X5 & M21A
c. ASM Configuration utility UI modification.
d. Support new NVRAM Event log functions
e. Now ASM Agent can detect ECC multiple bit memory error
f. Now ASM Agent can report BIOS POST stage error checking result


3. BPB & IFT-Agent 
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a. Fixed X3 BPB synchronization problem.
b. Support new Back plan board type - S3, S8

4. The 3rd Party Agent
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a. Support Mylex GAM agent, Adaptec CI/O agent and DTP agent.

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Limitations
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a. In order to use Fax functions You need to install Microsoft
   Exchange Client in the station system
b. If you are using Microsoft Exchange Client for your MAPI service 
   provider for FAX function, the Fax function will only work 
   on Windows 95 not windows NT (because Microsoft Exchange Client in 
   Windows NT does not have Fax service)
c. IP Auto-Discovery function limitation
   (1)C class Sub-Net - all 255 nodes
   (2)B Class Sub-Net - The last 255 nodes
   (3)A Class Sub-Net - The last 255 nodes
d. Default resolution is set to 800 by 600 not ordinary 640 by 480
e. Netware interpret ASPICD as a card in Netware
f. Slot information does not have the information about the device 
   attach to it
g. The Server discovery option in the ASM browser need Agent side
   support MIB-II MIB to work properly
h. Pager function will not apply to all different area/country
i. IFT Module only work for Netware & NT
j. Netware Agent will interpret some HDD Controller & the device attached to it incorrectly.
k. For UnixWare7, the MAC address is not supported.
l. For NT and SCO Openserver environment, with the Mylex installed, the Storage Information 
   places the Mylex devices under Adapter controller(aic78u2) instead of dac960nt.     
m. For SCO Openserver environment, the ASM agent can datect the Mylex controller, but fails
   to detect the drive mode namel.
n. In Netware 5, the processor performance window in ASM station can only detect one CPU utilization.
o. If station doesn't monitor the Netware agents, traps on agent side will not be sent to station side.
	
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Contact Window
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Product Information : 
Leon Huang, 	Phone # 		    : 886-2-8691-1536 
                Email 	        : LeonHuang@acer.com.tw
Technical Information: 
Joseph Chou, Phone # 	       : 886-2-8691-1753 
               Email 		    : JosephChou@acer.com.tw

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