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.