Systems Management Sampler

Attention!
Contact: Notification Technologies
719-535-2855 or 800-684-1684
Web: http://www.notify.com
Price: Varies depending on configuration and number of systems
Warranty: 800 phone support and all updates included during the first year; fee for subsequent years
Cost of technical support: Included first year; fee-based subsequent years
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
Attention! is a fault-tolerant, client/server software system providing immediate notification of system and network events via pagers, telephones, electronic message boards, email, and audio broadcast units. Attention! supports Windows NT, Windows 95, and all UNIX and OpenVMS systems.

Enterprise Server Management 2.5
Contact: NEC Computer Systems Division/PB/NEC
800-338-9549
Technical support: 888-306-4636
Web: http://www.nec.com
Price: Free for NEC ProServa customers
Warranty: One year standard, three years with UltraCare Package
Cost of technical support: Free if under warranty
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
Enterprise Server Management (ESM) 2.5 is NEC's Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based server management tool for managing the ProServa line of servers. ESM's capabilities include performance configuration, fault and security management with support for Windows NT 4.0, integration with Microsoft BackOffice Systems Management Server (SMS), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) support, alert notification, and out-of-bands alerts.

MC/EMpower
Contact: MainControl
703-749-2308
Web: http://www.maincontrol.com
Price: $20 to $150 in quantity
Warranty: Yes
Cost of technical support: First year is free; varies after that
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
MC/EMpower is a modular suite of asset- and systems-management solutions for distributed environments: Enterprise Explorer automatically builds enterprise IT inventories, SoftwareJet provides enterprisewide electronic software distribution and installation, HelpCenter offers problem management for networked users, ValueWise helps with financial management of IT assets, DataJet manages data transfers, and Chronicle identifies changes to hardware and software as they occur.

MKS Source Integrity
Contact: Mortice Kern Systems (MKS)
800-265-2797
Technical support: 519-884-2270
Web: http://www.mks.com
Price: $599 (volume discounts apply)
Warranty: Guaranteed
Cost of technical support: $120 basic support, $210 preferred customer support
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
MKS Source Integrity is a software configuration management system for client/server and intranet project leaders who must manage change and enable team development. MKS Source Integrity manages both client/server and Web-based development environments, including Windows NT, Windows 95, Web browsers, Web servers, DOS, OS/2, and UNIX.

NetIQ AppManager Suite
Contact: NetIQ
408-556-0888
Web: http://www.netiq.com
Price: $1000 per server
Warranty: N/A
Cost of technical support: Included with product
Provide Windows NT support? The product manages NT systems performance
The NetIQ AppManager Suite manages and monitors the availability and performance of distributed Windows NT systems and BackOffice server applications such as Exchange, Systems Management Server (SMS), Internet Information Server (IIS), and SQL Server from a central console. You can customize NetIQ AppManager Suite for each customer's unique monitoring requirements.

Norton Administrator Suite: Premier Edition
Contact: Symantec
800-441-7234
Web: http://www.symantec.com
Price: $59 per node for 1000 licenses, $45 per node for 5000 licenses
Cost of technical support: Varies by level of support
Provide Windows NT support? Yes, as it relates to product
Norton Administrator Suite: Premier Edition lets administrators automati-cally inventory hardware and software resources, meter and report software license compliance, monitor and con-trol server activities to enhance network availability, and diagnose and correct server problems. In addition, the administrator can create and administer standardized desktop configurations, ensure workstation virus protection, and gain remote control access to every networked workstation. The product is compatible with the major network operating systems.

NT Alert
Contact: Absoft
888-922-7638
Technical support: 561-852-0681
Web: http://www.absoft.net
Price: $499 per Windows NT workstation or server
Warranty: 90 days
Cost of technical support: 90 days free, $45 per incident after 90 days
Provide Windows NT support? No
NT Alert page-enables Windows NT Performance Monitor. NT Alert, which is powered by Motorola's Air Apparent for NT intelligent paging server, sends alphanumeric pages triggered by conditions from Performance Monitor. For example, a page is sent when disk space runs low, when there are too many connections on the Web server, and so on.

NT Manage 1.0
Contact: LANWARE
713-975-8050
Web: http://www.lanware.net
Price: $1997 for initial license, $1597 for additional licenses
Warranty: Only on the media
Cost of technical support: Free for first 60 days
Provide Windows NT support? Yes NT Manage is a TCP/IP-based and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-based monitoring and management solution that can notify administrators about possible network problems through onscreen, email, and paging interfaces. The product includes rules-based error reporting and notification that can spawn an application, run a separate Visual Basic (VB) script per device, and page or email an administrator in addition to writing the errors to a log file.

NuView ManageX
Contact: NuView
281-497-0620
Web: http://www.nuview.com
Price: Starts at $499
Warranty: 30 days included
Cost of technical support: 20 percent of suggested retail price for annual maintenance
NuView ManageX is an object-oriented, Web-enabled solution for proactively managing Windows NT, databases, applications, and intranets. With this product, you can centrally administer many distributed NT systems, solve challenges in applications management, and perform capacity planning.

PLATINUM AutoSys
Contact: PLATINUM TECHNOLOGY
800-890-7528 ext. 70100
Technical support: 800-833-7528
Web: http://www.platinum.com
Price: N/A
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
PLATINUM AutoSys centralizes and auto-mates job scheduling and management in distributed UNIX and Windows NT environments. The product offers mainframe-type batch scheduling, with features such as self-correcting job control, centralized systemwide monitoring, and programmable error-recovery.

PLATINUM AutoXfer
Contact: PLATINUM TECHNOLOGY
800-890-7528 ext. 70100
Technical support: 800-833-7528
Web: http://www.platinum.com
Price: N/A
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
PLATINUM AutoXfer offers software distribution, configuration, installation, and upgrade capabilities. By managing these processes more efficiently, AutoXfer reduces overall software deployment cost (estimated to exceed $8000 per seat over a five-year period). It operates on TCP/IP networks and can distribute (and roll back) software to platforms including UNIX, Windows, DOS, and OS/2. AutoXfer communicates with network management platforms such as HP OpenView, NetView for AIX, and Sun Net Manager to share configuration information and operational alarms.

PLATINUM AutoXfer Inventory
Contact: PLATINUM TECHNOLOGY
800-890-7528 ext. 70100
Technical support: 800-833-7528
Web: http://www.platinum.com
Price: N/A
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
AutoXfer Inventory is the first release of an integrated asset management product that can automatically inventory software and hardware components of PC nodes and basic UNIX hardware information. AutoXfer Inventory stores the discovered assets in an open relational database to provide easy access to this information.

PLATINUM WireTap
Contact: PLATINUM TECHNOLOGY
800-890-7528 ext. 70100
Technical support: 800-833-7528
Web: http://www.platinum.com
Price: N/A
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
WireTap monitors and manages performance on the entire enterprise network. It consists of the integrated EPM console and four analyzers that let a user perform in-depth evaluation of network, intranet and Internet traffic, and monitor and measure end-to-end transaction response time.

PLATINUM TransTracker
Contact: PLATINUM TECHNOLOGY
800-890-7528 ext. 70100
Technical support: 800-833-7528
Web: http://www.platinum.com
Price: N/A
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
PLATINUM TransTracker is a distributed transaction measurement tool that analyzes the performance of client/server transactions. At one-second intervals, various monitoring probes collect transaction-level resource metrics for client and server processes and network traffic. In addition, TransTracker captures database statistics and the SQL statements requested of the database server.

RoboMon for Windows NT
Contact: Heroix
800-229-6500
Web: http://www.robomon.com
Price: $200 to $7000 per CPU
Warranty: Per license agreement
Cost of technical support: 15 percent of license price per year
Provide Windows NT support? No
RoboMon software automatically detects and corrects system, database, and operational problems before they interrupt system reliability and performance. RoboMon understands BackOffice and solves problems with Windows NT Server, SQL Server, Exchange Server, Internet Information Server (IIS), and Systems Management Server (SMS). RoboMon provides networkwide event monitoring across NT, UNIX, and OpenVMS platforms.

ServerWORKS Manager
Contact: Digital Equipment
Sales: 800-344-4825
Technical support: 800-354-9000
Web: http://www.windows.digital.com
Price: $1499 (included at no additional charge with all Prioris Servers and Alpha Server Systems)
Warranty: 90-day advisory support
Cost of technical support: $444 per year for 7*24 coverage
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
ServerWORKS Manager provides tools to proactively manage network resources and increase uptime, improve user productivity, and reduce total cost of ownership. Features include autodiscovery for a visible topology map of network objects; polling and alarming of specified network events; integration of third-party management applications from within the GUI; Quick Launch for autoreplication; customized server configurations in distributed computing environments; and Revision Manager, an optional CD-ROM subscription service for system software and driver updates.

SofTrack for Windows NT
Contact: ON Technology
617-374-1400
Web: http://www.on.com
Price: Ranges from $795 to $5995
Warranty: 30-day money back guarantee
Cost of technical support: Free
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
SofTrack for Windows NT is a native NT service that lets administrators centrally manage software licenses, ensure compliance with licensing terms, and save money when buying upgrades and new applications. In combination with SofTrack for NetWare, SofTrack for NT automatically shares licenses among NetWare and NT application servers. SofTrack for NT is invisible to the local user and tamper-proof, preventing clever users from attempting to bypass license metering.

Tivoli Management Environment (TME) 10
Contact: Tivoli Systems
800-284-8654
Technical support: 800-848-6548
Web: http://www.tivoli.com
Price: Approximately $1000 per server and $75 per client
Warranty: First year of maintenance and support included in purchase price; extended maintenance available
Cost of technical support: First year of maintenance and support included in purchase price; extended maintenance available
Provide Windows NT support? Yes
TME 10's purpose is to provide a secure, robust environment for managing today's enterprisewide network computing resources. This resource management is accomplished with five key elements: scalable deployment applications, event-based operations applications, a robust management platform, toolkits for customization and extension, and integrated third-party applications.