ManageWise Sevices Garner Support From Leading Snmp Management Console Vendors

ManageWise 2.0 Enables Users To Manage the NetWare™ Environment From Their Console of Choice

ManageWise 2.0 builds on Novell's strategy of providing management as a network service, integrating its capabilities into the network rather than as a centralized system. As a distributed service, ManageWise takes advantage of existing network processing power and reduces network traffic. ManageWise services provide shared access to management information, enabling multiple standards-based consoles to cooperatively manage heterogeneous enterprise environments. In addition to the ManageWise server agent, enterprise consoles can access ManageWise mapping and network analysis services to better manage the network.

The ManageWise NetWare server agent is among the most extensive SNMP agents ever created. From any SNMP console, managers can detect, isolate and resolve over 400 NetWare server faults. Managers can monitor NetWare system configuration information such as user connections, memory and loaded NLM software. They can also proactively manage server performance by examining real time information and long term trends on parameters such as CPU utilization, disk space capacity and print queue usage. Further, managers can use SNMP to re-configure server parameters.

"The ability to use a variety of management platforms to manage the network is key for large organizations," said Prem Uppaluru, vice president and general manager of Novell's Management Products Division. "By enabling users to manage Novell networks from any SNMP console, ManageWise greatly expands the range of management options, and allows multiple managers within the organization to cooperate on network issues."

Support from enterprise console vendors

"By taking advantage of Novell's new agent, IBM now can provide enhanced manageability of the NetWare server and a more dynamic view of NetWare topology from SystemView," said Lynn Wilczak, director, SystemView Strategy and Plans, IBM Networking Software Division. "In combination, our recently announced SystemView Agent and the new Novell server agent make it possible for customers to manage their desktops and now Novell servers from a single SNMP manager, such as SystemView. This is a great opportunity for our shared customers to implement cooperative enterprise management."

Walt O'Maley of SunSoft said, "SunSoft is excited about the new ManageWise agent as it provides the same set of NetWare management data to all management consoles through the SNMP standard. Solstice Site Manager and Solstice Domain Manager provide a set of consistent, scalable and distributed management platforms that can be interconnected together to manage anything from the small site to the large multi-site environment. The new ManageWise agent is key as it now opens up LAN management along with our current strength in UNIX# and network device management. Novell's new agent is a real boon for the administrator who wants to centralize management of their different environments including NetWare LAN management."

"More and more OpenView customers consider management of NetWare environments to be a fundamental requirement," said Robert Hoog, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's Network and System Management Division. "With Novell's new ManageWise management agent, our customers can now have immediate access to additional sources of information about their NetWare environments, all from an OpenView enterprise console."

Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of personal computer, networking and communications products.

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