From: haase@meediv.lanl.gov (Peter Haase)
Subject: Server Manager (AppleShare Admin Replacement)
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:42:43 GMT

Just thought I would post this for all users that are interested in remote
AppleShare File Server Management.
 
APPLESHARE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SHIPS
 
Contact:
    Philip Zarboulas
 
    Santorini
    2147 Union Street
    Upper Level
    San Francisco, CA   94123
 
    Voice: (415) 563-6398
    Fax: (415) 563-0332
    AppleLink: SANTORINI
    America Online: SANTORINI
    CompuServe: 72420,3453
    Internet: SANTORINI@applelink.apple.com
 
 
SAN FRANCISCO, CA-- 25 JAN 93
 
Santorini Consulting & Design, Inc. today shipped Server Manager, network
management software that for the first time allows administrators to
simultaneously monitor, control, and administrate all their AppleShare 3.0
file
servers from the comfort of their own desk.   No longer will administrators
be
obligated to run around frantically to manage their far-flung servers, nor
will
they be blind as to the performance and status of their servers.
 
At an average cost of $75 per server for larger sites, Server Manager is
uniquely affordable and can greatly maximize everyones AppleShare
investment.
 
Server Manager consists of server agent software that runs on AppleShare
3.0
file servers, and a console application that runs on the network
administrators Macintosh.  The agents and the console application
communicate
with each other over the network.  The console may be run in the background
so
that administrators can go about their usual work with minimal intrusion.
 
Server Manager provides the following functionality:
 
I. MONITORING
      Problem Detection
    Server Manager tracks and pinpoints nine of the most common and major
    problems that plague servers including: back up failures, network clock
    synchronization problems, excessive server and user activity usage
levels,
    impending disk  space shortages,  too many idle users, etc.   Once a
    problem has been detected, Server Manager uses a rich set of functions
to
    notify the administrator and respond accordingly.  This includes sound,
    voice, dialog, and pager notifications, event logging, and even
corrective
    actions (such as automatically disconnecting idle users, or
synchronizing
    the servers clock when it is incorrect).
 
      Performance and Accounting Functions
    Server Manager records and logs server usage levels over extended
periods
    of time, as well as user log-on and log-off times, allowing network
    administrators to make intelligent decisions about AppleShare resource
    allocation, and providing them with the information necessary to
    restructure their networks for better performance.
 
II. CONTROL
    Server Manager allows network administrators to control the vital
aspects
    of their servers.  For example, administrators can start and stop
servers,
    disconnect users, unmount volumes, and edit vital server setup
information,
    all from the comfort of their own desks and using their own Macs.
 
III. ADMINISTRATION
    Server Manager allows network administrators to configure the users and
    groups of any AppleShare file server.  Administrators can add, remove,
or
    change user and group information for any file server from their own
desks
    and their own Macs, and even share user and group configurations
between
    file servers.
 
 
Server Manager is available now at the following prices:
 
    1 Server Pack      $395.00
    5 Server Pack       $695.00
    10 ServerPack      $995.00
    20 Server Pack    $1495.00
    Site licenses are available for more than 20 servers.
 
 
Santorini is a California corporation founded in 1990.   Santorini is the
developer of network management software that includes Farallon Computing,
Inc.s TrafficWatch II, and Dayna Communications, Inc.s two network
management products, NetScope Console and Network Vital Signs.  Network
Vital
Signs is an 1993 Eddy Award Finalist.   Santorini co-developed Daynas
NetScope
Probe remote network traffic monitor.  Santorini developed the prototype
and
concept of Fifth Generaton Systems best-selling AutoDoubler utility.
Santorini recently disclosed its Attach mobile computing software, slated
for
release at the end of the first quarter of 1993.

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  Peter Haase                      +    Internet: haase@meediv.lanl.gov
  Network Manager/MEE-Division     +    Applelink: HAASE
  Los Alamos National Laboratory   +    Phone: 505-667-2684

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