When the telecommunications operating system that Firmbase is monitoring stops working, the application can reboot the device in seconds, even in so-called panic conditions, according to the company. The company says its product can act as a sort of safety net that ensures network uptime. General Software says it expects third-party developers to add capabilities such as email and pager notification to its new product. May the power be with you this summer. One of the key features of the board, says Michael Tresh, APC product manager, is its ability to automatically switch from one power source to another in the event the primary source fails.
Users can also receive email alerts and view an event log.
The card is compatible with a wide range of enterprise-level network management systems. Thom Bailey, senior product manager, says the disk-backup product is increasingly being used to make duplicate, or mirror, images of servers that manage telecommunications systems. Ghost can create mirror images of individual files, selected directories, or entire hard drives. During reinstallation of an image file, Ghost automatically partitions and formats the destination disk. That means that target disks are immediately ready for cloning without time-consuming prep work.