Network Computing announces supportof Compaq AssetControl; Makes networked PCs easier to manage.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 8, 1995--Network Computing Inc. Wednesday announced that its LANAlert Network Management System currently supports Compaq Computer Corporation's new AssetControl, allowing LAN administrators to more easily manage the "tens of thousands" of PCs throughout the enterprise. Compaq's AssetControl, unveiled today in New York Today in New York is WNBC-TV's pre-Today newscast, also post-Today on weekends, airing from 5 AM to 7 AM weekdays with the local news cut ins being branded as such. , provides asset information about the Compaq personal computers in their enterprise. Network Computing is the first company to make Compaq's AssetControl information available to enterprise network managers. Now, both PC user inventory and file server alert information is available to the administrator on multiple, non-dedicated network management consoles running on DOS/Windows and 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). enterprise platforms. LANAlert, which uses distributed intelligent agents that run on LAN servers for the proactive monitoring of NetWare LAN/WAN LAN/WAN Local Area Network/Wide Area Network networks, has been designed to take full advantage of AssetControl features. It provides the LAN Administrator with information such as CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. identification, asset tag, system serial number, hard drive serial number, monitor ID, firmware revision levels, system board revision levels and software inventory. These Compaq specific inventory items are included in the LANAlert Node Agent network database. This PC inventory information is collected at network login time by the LANAlert Node Agent without the use of Terminate and Stay Resident See TSR. Terminate and Stay Resident - (TSR) A type of DOS utility which, once loaded, stays in memory and can be reactivated by pressing a certain combination of keys. (TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) Refers to a program that remains in memory when the user exits it in order that it be immediately available at the press of a hotkey. ) programs. Changes in any of the PC inventory items generate alerts which are forwarded to LANAlert's management consoles. "We are very proud to be working a with a world-class leader like Compaq to achieve the common goal of making network management more powerful," said Bill Sickler, president of Network Computing. "With the integration of Compaq's Intelligent Management and AssetControl features, LANAlert users will be able to access the additional rich set of information available from Compaq's latest product offering." Kevin Bohren, vice president, desktop marketing, Desktop Product Division, Compaq Computer Corp., noted that "as LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. management becomes a key differentiator in today's competitive desktop PC arena, it's exciting to work with a forward thinking company such as Network Computing. Compaq and NCI See Liberate. are working together to offer a suite of products and tools that make networked PCs easier to manage and that significantly lower the total cost of PC ownership." Network Computing Inc., founded in 1990, is a leading supplier of LAN management solutions for the enterprise. The company is the first to use distributed intelligent agents for the management of NetWare 2.x, 3.X and 4.X file servers and attached LAN workstations. Currently, over 10,000 file servers and over 750,000 PC network nodes are being managed by the company's flagship product, LANAlert. In January 1995, the company announced the availability of the LANAlert for NetView 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. , the first management solution completely integrated with that leading enterprise management platform. CONTACT: Network Computing Inc. Tom O'Neill, 408/296-8080 Simon/McGarry PR Carol Felton, 408/746-0911 |
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