Fremont, California-based Independence Technologies Inc is this week making its iView software available as a series of four stand-alone products: iView Log Manager, iView System Manager, iView SNMP Agent and iView Event Manager. Each product can now be bought separately or as a modular system for managing hardware and application software in heterogeneous TCP/IP-based local or wide area networks. The iView System Manager is designed to enable users to monitor, control and restart hardware, networks, databases, transaction monitors and applications. The product consists of a central system manager, which continually monitors and receives network-wide system information from one or more remote agents, whether Simple Network Management Protocol or Common Management Interface Protocol. The company’s SNMP agent supports its proprietary management information base for monitoring software processes, file systems, Unix performance and the Tuxedo/T transaction manager from Unix Systems Laboratories Inc. It will operate on any SNMP-based management environment including Sun Microsystems Inc’s SunNet Manager. The iView Log Manager logs error and activity information from applications running on multi-vendor Unix boxes, whether they are workstations or high-end servers. The data can then be stored in a relational database for browsing, sorting and reporting using a built-in graphical user interface. The iView Event manager enables application processes to send and receive events from any process in the network, monitors Unix processes and restarts them if necessary. When used with the iView System manager, it enables users to generate alarms. The software has been ported to Sun Microsystems Sparcstations, Pyramid Technology Corp MIServers and Data General Corp AViiON servers. A single System Manager sells for $14,000. Each SNMP Agent is $200. The Log Manager is $3,000 and Event Manager comes in at $2,500. Discount is said to be available on volume orders.
