Roslyn Heights, New York-based Cheyenne Software Inc has announced an enhancement to its Monitrix NetWare inventory, monitoring and documenting offering for network management. The new version, Monitrix 3.0, supports Novell Inc NetWare 3.X and 4.X servers, as well as MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Mac personal computers, including stand-alone systems, says the company. Monitrix resides on […]
Roslyn Heights, New York-based Cheyenne Software Inc has announced an enhancement to its Monitrix NetWare inventory, monitoring and documenting offering for network management. The new version, Monitrix 3.0, supports Novell Inc NetWare 3.X and 4.X servers, as well as MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Mac personal computers, including stand-alone systems, says the company. Monitrix resides on the primary file server as a NetWare Loadable Module. For multi-server networks, it uses a primary and secondary server architecture claimed to be unique; the former centralises and manages all information, while secondary server Network Loadable Modules gather statistics locally about the nodes plugged into them, and upload these to the primary server. According to Cheyenne, this negates the need to attach to a dedicated management server and reduces the amount of statistics traffic across the network. Data available to the administrator is said to include the software titles on each workstation, customised asset management fields, file server utilisation, network traffic and node communications. Finally, Monitrix’s alert system is claimed to be able to deliver messages to multiple users via network broadcasts, alphanumeric paging, Message Handling System-compliant electronic mail, trouble tickets and SNMP traps, such as Novell’s NMS, Hewlett-Packard Co’s OpenView and Sun Microsystems Inc’s SunNet Manager. The alarm system is also said to work with Cheyenne’s Network Loadable Module-based facsimile offering, FAXserve, to fax alerts through the system. The base Monitrix package lists for $500 and supports up to 50 nodes; its primary server database can be expanded to service up to 100, 200, 500, 1,000 and 2,000 nodes with the corresponding prices of these ranging from $200 to $1,000, says the company. It is shipping now along with upgrades from previous versions of Monitrix.
