A start-up company believes it has a better way of managing intranets using the Web.
Manage.Com is the latest Web-based management start-up, following in the tracks of NextPoint Networks, Inc. and Proactive Networks. Like its predecessors, Manage.Com thinks the best way to manage Internet technologies is to use Internet technologies to manage.
With that, Manage.Com unveiled FrontLine Manager, Java-based software for managing IP-based desktops, servers and network resources - the stuff intranets are made of.
FrontLine Manager runs on Windows NT and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Solaris systems. It is designed to handle day-to-day operational management tasks, such as immediate response to alerts, rather than "back-end" management, such as device reconfiguration or security policy establishment.
FrontLine Manager includes a thin client, Web browser graphical user interface that provides a view of applications, network services, servers, desktops and other devices such as hubs, switches and routers. It also includes Java agents that provide dynamic resource status monitoring and are easily upgradable, and an object database for dynamic representation of network status and device relationships.
FrontLine Manager also supports standard SNMP agents, and proprietary Management Information Bases from 3Com Corp., Bay Networks, Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc. and Cabletron Systems, Inc. A single copy of FrontLine Manager supports 255 devices.
The Manage.Com software costs $2,995 per copy. It will ship May 31.
