Network equipment and a method for monitoring the start up of a such an equipment

摘要

The invention concerns a network equipment for connection to a local network and a method for monitoring the start up of a such an equipment.

This equipment comprises
persistent memory (4) for storing software (5, 6, 7), and advantageously also comprisescommunication means (8, 9) for connection through said network to a software server (3),means (10) for monitoring the start up of the equipment in order to detect a software failure,means (10) for generating a software failure signal in response to the detection of a failure by the monitoring means,    and for automatically sending a notification of the failure to the server through the network.