Bay Networks Inc has announced new management applications for client-server networks, and new RMON/RMON2-based Fast Ethernet probes. Optivity Analysis 7.0 and Optivity Planning 7.0 provide network optimization and design for client-server environments. The company says Optivity Analysis takes full advantage of all Bay RMON agents, StackProbe devices and standalone OnSite multi-segment RMON probes for fault isolation and traffic measurement. Features include fault isolation and analysis for Et hernet, Token Ring and FDDI; RMON support for all nine Ethernet and 10 Token Ring groups; enterprise-wide alarm thresholds; alarm monitors and global views for top-down fault isolation and analysis. The OnSite management application and the TrafficM an internetwork monitor are integrated. Optivity Planning comprises NetReporter, a Simple Network Management Protocol/RMON-based data collection and report generation tool and the DesignMan simulation tool. Both products operate on a range of Unix-based management systems, including HP OpenView, SunNet Manager and IBM NetView/6000. They support standalone Unix versions and can run on SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX without having to install a network management system. The new single-port FE100 or dual-port FE200 Fast Ethernet StackProbes include Bay’s PassThru port design, which provides continuous RMON/RMON2 monitoring of traffic between switch-to-switch, switch-to-server and switch-to-shared Fast Ethernet links. The probe can connect directly to the network without additional wiring. The Fast Ethernet probes are claimed to provide the highest processing power in the industry, full-time monitoring of critical connections and roving capabilities to monitor any switch conversation on an as-needed basis. Optivity Analysis 7.0 is available immediately; Optivity Planning 7.0 will be released in September. Both cost $6,000. The FE100 and FE200 Fast Ethernet StackProbes cost $6,000 and $9,000 respectively and are due this month.
