====== Beetle Info ======
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{{:plugins:beetle:6.png  }}**Beetle Info** is an agent software application available for **Wincor Beetle Point-Of-Sales** products. Thanks to **Xcalibur W's Beetle Info Plugins**, you can now enjoy **to collect** your Beetle specific **device data** and **to monitor** the usage of your POS systems within **Xcalibur W** console. 
 
===== Beetle Info Inventory and Monitoring data =====
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Beetle Info provides inventory information of the following components:
  * **Main board**: type, serial no, housing, bios version, bios settings, cpu type , main board memory
  * **Devices**: connected USB devices with vendor id, product id, serial no
  * **Hard disk**: SMART data device model, serial number, firmware version, user capacity and SMART attributes
  * **Drives**: model, capacity, geometry, connection type, partitions, vendor
  * **Network adapters**: mac address, ip4 address , ip6 address, gateway, mask, dns server,
  * **PCI cards**: id, vendor, description
  * **OS**: OS modules, kernel modules, OS services
  * **Processes**: name, version, id, memory usage
  * **Installed software**: drivers, applications
  * **RAID**: state, level, capacity
  * **Printers**: name, model, connectivity, manufacturer, hardware id, drivers
  * **Display adapters**: name, description, hardware id
  * **Monitors**: name, description, hardware id

It also provides Proactive fault management by controlling thresholds for the following components:
  * **Fan speeds**
  * **Temperatures**
  * **Voltages**
  * **CPU usage**
  * **Memory usage** for main and swap memory
  * **Drive capacities**
  * **SMART attributes**
  * **RAID state**

===== Loading Beetle Info Plugins =====
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Once loaded onto **Xcalibur W** server, the **Beetle Info Plugins** appears within your **Plugins List** as shown below.

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You are now ready to detect **Beetle POS Systems** within your [[installation_guide:first_time_use:main_device_list|Device List]] and to benefit from the additionnal inventory and monitoring data provided by **Beetle Info**.

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===== Using Beetle Info Inventory Data =====
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In order to collect Inventory Data, a new command module is available within the Xcalibur W's
[[manage_devices:tasks_and_creating_tasks#available_commands_tab|Command List]]. You can use this command to **refresh on demand** the Inventory Data from your Beetle POS Systems. However, keep in mind that this **[[manager_options:settings#automatic_inventory_settings |inventory can be done automatically]]** at each device startup if your Xcalibur W server is set to do so.

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Once collected, the **Beetle Info** Inventory data are added & merged to the Xcalibur W device data available within the [[commands_glossary:commands_to_single_device#monitor|Inventory]] sections of your devices.

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===== Using Beetle Info Monitoring Data =====
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In addition to the static inventory data, **Beetle Info** offers monitoring data which can be used with Xcalibur W's [[monitoring_and_preventive_maintenance:overview|Monitoring and Preventive Maintenance]] tool.

When creating a new [[monitoring_and_preventive_maintenance:rules_and_creating_rules|Monitoring Rule]], you have access to **Beetle's specific Triggers** as shown below.

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For each of the above triggers, Xcalibur W will raise an **alert**, open an **incident** and notify by **email** - whenever the specified component reaches a **Warning** or **Critical** state.


|{{:tip.png |}} Please refer to the [[monitoring_and_preventive_maintenance:overview|Monitoring and Preventive Maintenance]] section for more information on Alerts, Incidents and Email Notification|