The Compaq Survey Utility is an online information gathering agent that runs on servers. It gathers critical hardware and software information from various sources and saves it as a history of multiple sessions. This utility was developed to allow resolution of problems without taking the server off-line and to assist in maximizing server availability.
This utility generates reports, with varying levels of detail available, which identify configuration changes between captured sessions.
This technology preview version of the Compaq Survey Utility enables you to control the utility from a browser to perform the following functions:
- Show Only Major Differences
- Show All Differences
- Show Standard Detail and Differences
- Show More Detail and Differences
- Show All Detail and Differences
The default view for this product contains
three frames:
The Title Frame, located in the upper left corner of the browser window, contains the program title, the link to a help page, a link to the top of the report in the data frame, and a link back to the device home page. Use this link to quickly navigate back to the page where the Survey Utility was selected.
The Navigation Frame, located underneath the Title Frame on the left side of the window, contains a tree applet which allows navigation of the report in the Data frame on the right. Click a tree item to open it, and the report in the Data Frame on the right is positioned to place the selected data at the top of the window. All of the data in the report remains available in the data window.
The keyboard can also be used to navigate the tree applet. Use the up and down arrows to navigate vertically through the tree. Use the right arrow to open a branch or sub-folder. After 1 second of inactivity, the data window is automatically repositioned to the selected item.
The Data Frame makes up the remainder of the browser window and displays both a form for controlling Survey and a Survey report.
Survey Report
A portion of a Survey Report is provided below. Note that a '(+)' indicates a current state in the primary session, and a '(-)' indicates a previous state in the comparison session.
Example:
Bus Architecture System Board .......... Compaq ProSignia 300 Server Slot 1 EISA ........... [empty] Slot 2 EISA ....... (+) Compaq NetFlex-3/E Controller (-) [empty] Slot 3 EISA ....... (+) [empty] (-) Board Id[TCO3147] Slot 4 EISA/PCI ...... Compaq Integrated NetFlex-L ENET/PCI ControllerThe example above shows several changes. The first '(+)' indicates that a NetFlex-3/E board is now installed in slot 2. The '(-)' on the following line indicates that the slot was previously empty. The next '(+)' indicates that slot 3 is now empty. The '(-)' indicates that a Thomas Conrad 3147 board was previously in the slot.
Report types range from "Show Only Major Differences" to "Show All Details and Differences". "Show Only Major Differences" generates a report that ONLY shows items that are significant and different. Lines without a (+) or (-) are not included in the report. "Show All Details and Differences" includes in-depth information as well as the (+)' and (-) change markers.