Official debut of DS Expert for NetWare 4.1 at COMDEX '95 Las Vegas.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1995--NetPro Computing computing - computer Inc., a leading provider of enterprise network utilities, will be exhibiting its latest network utility product - DS Expert for NetWare 4.1 at COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nov. 13 through Nov. 17. The DS Expert exhibit will be located in the Novell Yes Partner Pavilion, booth 2612. DS Expert is an easy-to-use utility designed to monitor, troubleshoot To find out why something does not work and to fix the problem. Troubleshooting a computer often requires determining whether the problem is due to malfunctioning hardware or buggy or out-of-date software. See debug. and optimize NetWare(R) NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services (TM). DS Expert's advanced technology alerts network administrators to problems as they occur and directs them immediately to the source of the problem. DS Expert began shipping Oct. 24, 1995, and represents NetPro's initial expansion into the Novell(R) NetWare 4 market. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. NetPro's President and Chief Executive Officer, Joanne Carthey, "Initial market response to DS Expert has been overwhelming. "Numerous Fortune 100 companies have been utilizing DS Expert and we have been hearing things such as, 'we are using DS Expert daily and have already saved hours of administration time by quickly finding and correcting replica table inconsistencies' and 'DS Expert is saving me hours every week, I've already caught several problems that would have remained elusive for days if not weeks. The multi-server trace function is one of the best diagnostic tools I've used.'" "We love DS Expert. It is a major benefit to the Directory Services administrator and has really taken the guess work out of my diagnostics. This is an extremely valuable utility for the NetWare 4.1 administrator, and it definitely makes my job a lot easier," said Andy Von Der Bruegge, Missouri Department of Health. "DS Expert makes it even simpler to manage, administer and migrate to NetWare 4.1," said Scott Wells, manager of developer programs for Novell's NetWare Products Division. NetWare 4.1 has been receiving glowing reviews. However, very few networks are immune to power failures, disk or equipment failures and user errors. This is when DS Expert becomes an essential tool for the network administrator. In addition to its alarm-features, it provides a console for monitoring and troubleshooting the health and performance of the NetWare Directory Services See eDirectory. (networking) Netware Directory Services - (NDS) Novell, Inc.'s directory services for Netware, Windows NT, and Unix. The NDS directory represents each network resource (user, hardware, or application) as an object of a certain class, where each class has (TM) (NDS(TM)). The NDS is much like a "Yellow Pages" telephone directory that permits any object on the network to look up another object and find its location and the services it provides. NDS includes a database that is a directory of information about every object on the network -- including users, printers, message servers, volumes and groups. DS Expert's Windows(TM) interface allows it to present multiple server NDS information simultaneously, in an easy to understand graphical format. The following DS Expert features ensure and maintain the integrity of the NDS: o Partition A reserved part of disk or memory that is set aside for some purpose. On a PC, new hard disks must be partitioned before they can be formatted for the operating system, and the Fdisk utility is used for this task. View -- view entire partition and easily spot network directory corruption; monitor multiple servers at a glance. o Partition Alerts -- alters include not enough replicas of a partition or too many replicas for one server. o Multi-Server DS Trace -- graphical presentation of NDS trace messages across multiple servers; making it simple to diagnose problems at a glance; view multiple servers simultaneously via multiple windows. o Replica Sync Alert -- warns of replication errors. o Server Time Sync Alert -- alerts the administrator when servers have fallen out of time sync. o Low Disk Space Alert -- warns when there is little space left on the SYS SYS System(s) SYS System Configuration (File Name Extension) SYS See You Soon SYS Sun Yat-Sen (founder of Republic of China) SYS Stretch-Yawn Syndrome volume. The initial DS Expert Starter Kit will retail for $1,299. This includes one DS Expert Tree Monitor, the software which monitors the NDS tree, two DS Expert Agents, the software that collects information from the NDS server and provides it to the Tree Monitor and the DS Expert Windows Client software, which is the user interface to the Tree Monitor. Each additional agent will retail for $499. NetPro Computing Inc. is a third party developer and publisher of network utility software including virus protection and administrator utilities for Banyan banyan (băn`yən), species of fig (Ficus bengalensis) of the family Moraceae (mulberry family), native to India, where it is venerated. Its seeds usually germinate in the branches of some tree where they have been dropped by birds. and Novell networks A LAN controlled by one of Novell's NetWare operating systems. See NetWare. . NetPro markets products worldwide from its Scottsdale, Ariz. headquarters. For more information, NetPro is on the World Wide Web at http://www.netpro.com. CONTACT: NetPro Computing Inc., Scottsdale Kimberly Norris, 602/941-3639 or Gordon C. James Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Phoenix Mike Pressendo, 602/274-1988 |
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