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ASWM for Linux
Chapter 5 : ASWM Software for Linux
Overview of ASWM for Linux
Thank you for choosing ASUS hardware products. We believe that
you will be very satisfied with ASUS hardware products due to its
stability and quality. Now, ASUS tries its best to serve you further by
offering you ASUS Web-based Management (ASWM) system with
ASUS Management Agent (ASMA). Both of these software products
will help you ease your daily system management tasks when you
choose the LINUX operating system as your primary platform.
If you do not yet know what ASMA is, here is a brief description.
ASMA is developed by ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS) and is
packaged with enhanced LINUX kernel drivers to monitor ASUS
hardware for component failures. Including applications which are
also packaged within ASMA, you can monitor voltages, temperatures,
FAN rotation speeds, and other hardware conditions. Meanwhile,
ASMA can also issue SNMP traps and even send audits through the
email right to your personal computer. ASMA interacts with
administrators through the SNMP. Currently, ASMA is based on the
well-known SNMP utilities which were developed by Carnegie Mellon
and University of California at Davis (visit
“http://net-
snmp.sourceforge.net/” for more information.)
However, utilizing ASMA may not be an easy job for many system
administrators. Most system administrators have to purchase a third-
party software and learn how to use them (such as HP® OpenView™).
Also not that in order to use third-party management software, you
have to first acquire all the ASUS MIB extensions. But now you do
not have to worry about this any more because ASUS provides ASWM.
ASWM is a Web-based interface for system administrators to
customize their own ASMA environments. With simple web browser
operations, everyone can easily manage ASMA with a few mouse
clicks and keystrokes.
ASWM was compiled using highly compatible web pages (which are
supported by most popular web browsers). ASWM itself utilizes the
world-accepted Apache HTTP Server. ASWM also provides safe and
flexible security control. All these are natively done by the strongest
Linux and Apache security features.