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Depends on what you mean. I know that Compaq/HP Insight Manager has agents that can be deployed to their desktop PCs that function pretty much like the agents do on their servers. But I'm not aware of any software that provides this functionality specifically for desktop PCs.
I suppose you could use any of the commercially available health monitoring applications and just put them on PCs instead of a server. However, most companies don't monitor their desktop PCs for the following reasons:
1. It's less of an issue if a dekstop PC dies. It only inconveniences the one user, whereas a server failure can stop a company in it's tracks.
2. When a component on a PC dies the PC usually crashes, at which point the agent is useless and the server doing the monitoring would see the same thing as it would if the PC were simply turned off. With a server you usually have redundant parts so that it can keep running with a single failed part.
3. Server components usually have extra monitoring hardware built into them to allow them to report health status. Desktop PCs don't.
4. There are a lot more important things that they could spend the money on.
I suppose you could use any of the commercially available health monitoring applications and just put them on PCs instead of a server. However, most companies don't monitor their desktop PCs for the following reasons:
1. It's less of an issue if a dekstop PC dies. It only inconveniences the one user, whereas a server failure can stop a company in it's tracks.
2. When a component on a PC dies the PC usually crashes, at which point the agent is useless and the server doing the monitoring would see the same thing as it would if the PC were simply turned off. With a server you usually have redundant parts so that it can keep running with a single failed part.
3. Server components usually have extra monitoring hardware built into them to allow them to report health status. Desktop PCs don't.
4. There are a lot more important things that they could spend the money on.
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