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- From: haase@meediv.lanl.gov (Peter Haase)
- Subject: Server Manager (AppleShare Admin Replacement)
- Message-ID: <haase-240193214020@mac_dialin1.meediv.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:42:43 GMT
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- Just thought I would post this for all users that are interested in remote
- AppleShare File Server Management.
-
- APPLESHARE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SHIPS
-
- Contact:
- Philip Zarboulas
-
- Santorini
- 2147 Union Street
- Upper Level
- San Francisco, CA 94123
-
- Voice: (415) 563-6398
- Fax: (415) 563-0332
- AppleLink: SANTORINI
- America Online: SANTORINI
- CompuServe: 72420,3453
- Internet: SANTORINI@applelink.apple.com
-
-
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA-- 25 JAN 93
-
- Santorini Consulting & Design, Inc. today shipped Server Manager¬, network
- management software that for the first time allows administrators to
- simultaneously monitor, control, and administrate all their AppleShare 3.0
- file
- servers from the comfort of their own desk. No longer will administrators
- be
- obligated to run around frantically to manage their far-flung servers, nor
- will
- they be blind as to the performance and status of their servers.
-
- At an average cost of $75 per server for larger sites, Server Manager is
- uniquely affordable and can greatly maximize everyone╒s AppleShare
- investment.
-
- Server Manager consists of server agent software that runs on AppleShare
- 3.0
- file servers, and a console application that runs on the network
- administrator╒s Macintosh. The agents and the console application
- communicate
- with each other over the network. The console may be run in the background
- so
- that administrators can go about their usual work with minimal intrusion.
-
- Server Manager provides the following functionality:
-
- I. MONITORING
- Ñ Problem Detection
- Server Manager tracks and pinpoints nine of the most common and major
- problems that plague servers including: back up failures, network clock
- synchronization problems, excessive server and user activity usage
- levels,
- impending disk space shortages, too many idle users, etc. Once a
- problem has been detected, Server Manager uses a rich set of functions
- to
- notify the administrator and respond accordingly. This includes sound,
- voice, dialog, and pager notifications, event logging, and even
- corrective
- actions (such as automatically disconnecting idle users, or
- synchronizing
- the server╒s clock when it is incorrect).
-
- Ñ Performance and Accounting Functions
- Server Manager records and logs server usage levels over extended
- periods
- of time, as well as user log-on and log-off times, allowing network
- administrators to make intelligent decisions about AppleShare resource
- allocation, and providing them with the information necessary to
- restructure their networks for better performance.
-
- II. CONTROL
- Server Manager allows network administrators to control the vital
- aspects
- of their servers. For example, administrators can start and stop
- servers,
- disconnect users, unmount volumes, and edit vital server setup
- information,
- all from the comfort of their own desks and using their own Macs.
-
- III. ADMINISTRATION
- Server Manager allows network administrators to configure the users and
- groups of any AppleShare file server. Administrators can add, remove,
- or
- change user and group information for any file server from their own
- desks
- and their own Macs, and even share user and group configurations
- between
- file servers.
-
-
- Server Manager is available now at the following prices:
-
- 1 Server Pack $395.00
- 5 Server Pack $695.00
- 10 ServerPack $995.00
- 20 Server Pack $1495.00
- Site licenses are available for more than 20 servers.
-
-
- Santorini is a California corporation founded in 1990. Santorini is the
- developer of network management software that includes Farallon Computing,
- Inc.╒s TrafficWatch¬ II, and Dayna Communications, Inc.╒s two network
- management products, NetScope Console¬ and Network Vital Signs¬. Network
- Vital
- Signs is an 1993 Eddy Award Finalist. Santorini co-developed Dayna╒s
- NetScope
- Probe¬ remote network traffic monitor. Santorini developed the prototype
- and
- concept of Fifth Generaton System╒s best-selling AutoDoubler utility.
- Santorini recently disclosed its AttachÄ mobile computing software, slated
- for
- release at the end of the first quarter of 1993.
-
- <==================================+==================================>
- Peter Haase + Internet: haase@meediv.lanl.gov
- Network Manager/MEE-Division + Applelink: HAASE
- Los Alamos National Laboratory + Phone: 505-667-2684
-
- "The opinions expressed in this message are my own and do not necessarily
- reflect those of Los Alamos National Laboratory"
-