Boole & Babbage Extends the Reach of IBM's SystemView for AIX; COMMAND/Post and Ensign Deliver Management Interoperability from Legacy to Client/Server.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 1995--In a move that strengthens its marketplace position as a leader in enterprise automation solutions, Boole & Babbage, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BOOL), today announced interoperability between its distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. management products and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) SystemView for AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. . Boole & Babbage, a charter member of the SystemView Advance Team, is currently delivering versions of its COMMAND/Post(TM) and Ensign(TM) products that operate on the most recent releases of NetView for AIX and support automatic problem definitions for IBM Trouble Ticket for AIX. The COMMAND/Post and Ensign products offer significant gains to SystemView by ensuring applications availability through automation across the entire IT enterprise and by extending the reach of the network management feature of SystemView for AIX to non-Agent-based objects in the enterprise. Ensign products currently interoperate with the NetView for AIX feature, providing simultaneous applications launching, alert sharing and fast-path troubleshooting to enable context- and problem-sensitive navigation between maps and alert displays. "COMMAND/POST and Ensign expand the availability management scope of SystemView for AIX into the non-SNMP world, and Ensign is a natural fit for our mutual customers who want to centralize administration of the managed systems in their enterprises," said Saverio Merlo, senior vice president of marketing for Boole & Babbage. "Since many of our customers use, intend to use or are interested in SystemView for AIX for distributed systems management, strengthening COMMAND/Post and Ensign interoperability brings added focus to our corporate mission for industry-leading interoperability with all the major DSM 1. DSM - Data Structure Manager. An object-oriented language by J.E. Rumbaugh and M.E. Loomis of GE, similar to C++. It is used in implementation of CAD/CAE software. DSM is written in DSM and C and produces C as output. frameworks such as SystemView." Because legacy equipment can be managed only by a message-based fault and operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. tool such as COMMAND/Post, its interoperability with SystemView is especially important. By initiating automatic problem resolution and funneling alert information into SystemView, COMMAND/Post enhances SystemView with fault and operations management capabilities that reach any type of equipment in the customer enterprise, regardless of conformance to protocol standards such as SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. or CMIP (Common Management Information Protocol) Pronounced "c-mip." A network monitoring and control standard from ISO. CMOT (CMIP over TCP) is a version that runs on TCP/IP networks, and CMOL (CMIP over LLC) runs on IEEE 802 LANs (Ethernet, Token Ring, etc.). . COMMAND/Post is an enterprisewide automated systems management product that provides central point-of-control for availability, fault management and automated operation of complex, multivendor environments. COMMAND/Post can alert the IS manager to problems and respond automatically to any systems and network events to fend off trouble conditions. It safeguards the overall efficiency of enterprise systems and improves the productivity of staff by automating many common procedures. The Ensign product line of UNIX systems management applications provides core control capabilities for event management and automation, operations management and administration, and problem response and user support. The Ensign systems management applications operate across 13 UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms and Novell NetWare (operating system, networking) Novell NetWare - Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. environments, and can interoperate with any SNMP platform. Boole & Babbage is a worldwide leader in enterprise automation software for distributed systems. The company is committed to supporting open systems and the growing client/server market to help IS organizations reduce costs and increase systems availability. Boole & Babbage maintains strategic alliances with IBM and other industry leaders to ensure its customers the most powerful, efficient solutions. Founded in 1967, Boole & Babbage sells more than 40 products in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. For more information, contact Boole & Babbage at (800) 544-2152. -0- Note to Editors: Boole & Babbage is a registered trademark of Boole & Babbage, Inc. COMMAND/Post and Ensign are trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc. CONTACT: Boole & Babbage, Inc. Shelly Gordon, 408/526-3430 sgordon@boole.com |
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