''According to Subo Guha, the vice president of product management for CA's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit, CA supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) standard on any device, including handhelds and home-based personal computers.

"If SNMP is enabled for a handheld, we can send events to the device," Guha said.''

Sun ''For Solaris servers, this tool provides: event notification via interactive interfaces, email or pager of hardware and software failures; remote internal environmental monitoring (e.g., CPUs, disks, fans, power supplies); remote power on, power off and reset; the ability to view boot logs and run logs''

http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/Remote-server-administration-tools-Manage-your-data-center-from-a-distance

http://www.bmc.com/

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