SightLine components include Expert Advisor, Vision and Agents. SightLine Advisor highlights relationships among IT components and identifies indicators that can impact an e-business environment. SightLine Vision provides views of e-business service levels, based on the specific needs of the user. Three types of SightLine Agents monitor service-level indicators, geared toward different needs. Power Agents provide in-depth monitoring, Summary Agents monitor critical indicators and Interface Agents protect IT investment by collecting information and consolidating it with other information gathered by SightLine.
Pricing is based on the package components and quantity deployed.
The company offers SightLine Critical Path and SightLine Web packaging options, as well as the QuickStart program at a lower entry point. If you plan to deploy Windows 2000, Open Software Associates, Inc.'s product may assist in the transition. Nashua, N.H.-based OSA has announced NetDeploy Global, a suite of software and services based on the ActiveDirectory service of Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system. The product, in beta testing as of mid-May, builds on software deployment and management features of previous generations of OSA software, but adds the ability to manage a global enterprise from a single server running Windows 2000 with ActiveDirectory, according to OSA President Graeme Greenhill. He puts the product in the infrastructure category of software asset management.