Sunbelt Software Announces Upgrade to ServerVision; New Version 1.1 Adds New Connectivity Options, Support for Policies and Grouping.CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Sunbelt Software Founded in 1984 Sunbelt Software is a software company based out of Clearwater, Florida and provider of enterprise system infrastructure software, including anti-spyware, security, anti-spam and system management tools. , a leading provider of Windows security and infrastructure tools, today announced the release of an upgrade to ServerVision. The new version 1.1 delivers functionality that gives administrators more control over their organizations' monitoring needs, including the ability to group systems being monitored, the ability to apply performance monitoring policies, new connectivity options, and support for external databases. Designed to be extremely easy to use, ServerVision provides affordable and powerful monitoring of local and remote servers, with automated actions and alerts based on pre-defined events and thresholds. External database support ServerVision now has the ability to store captured performance data and operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. events (from event logs) into either an Access or SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. external relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. . This data can then be queried using any third party tool desired by the administrator. Assign computers using groups The new Groups feature is a way to organize all the servers within an enterprise. Individual servers may either be manually included in one or more groups or automatically enrolled based upon user-definable criteria. Configure performance settings using policies ServerVersion now ships with a number of pre-defined performance monitoring policies that can be applied to one or more computers. Additional polices can be created to represent the specific monitoring configurations required by individual enterprises. For example, an "SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. " policy might define key services to monitor, and have 10 performance items that should be monitored, together with suitable thresholds. New connectivity options The new connectivity options allow administrators to connect to a computer using protocol independent named pipes An IPC facility in LAN Manager that allows data to be exchanged from one application to another either over a network or running within the same computer. The use of the term pipes for interprocess communication was coined in Unix. or TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. with Windows log on for that computer. Deployment to other computers in another domain is also possible with administrative log on for that domain. About Sunbelt Software Headquartered in Tampa Bay Tampa Bay, inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, 25 mi (40 km) long and 7 to 12 mi (11.3–19 km) wide, W Fla., separated from the Gulf by numerous small islands; it receives the Hillsborough River. St. (Clearwater), Florida, Sunbelt Software, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise system infrastructure software, including security, anti-spyware, anti-spam and system management tools. The company was founded in 1994 and offers product solutions that enable companies to protect and secure their infrastructure from costly inefficiencies including spam, Windows system downtime and network security vulnerabilities. Sunbelt Software is part of the Sunbelt International Group, which includes Sunbelt Software, Inc. and Sunbelt System Software in Europe. The Sunbelt System Software Group has offices in the UK, France, Belgium, Sweden and Germany. Copyright (C) 2005 Sunbelt Software, Inc. All rights reserved. All trademarks used are owned by their respective companies. |
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