We installed the management consoles on a Dell PowerEdge 220 with two 266-MHz Pentium processors and 128M bytes of RAM running Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3. We installed ManageWise on a 100-MHz Pentium with 32M bytes of RAM running NetWare 4.11 in a Chatcom, Inc. Office Series 210.
Our managed clients were three 100-MHz Pentium boards in the Chatcom server running Windows 95; a Fujitsu Milan with a 120-MHz Pentium and 42M of bytes of RAM running Windows 95; and a Micron Electronics, Inc. Vetix Lxi with a 266-MHz Pentium and 128M of bytes of RAM running Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3. All servers and clients supported IPX, IP and NetBEUI protocols. Two clients running Windows 95 supported IPX using Microsoft's Gateway Service for NetWare, while the other two (one Windows 95 system and the NT system) used Novell Client32 support. We first installed each product's desktop management console and then the client agents. To test all the components of each suite, we ran hardware and software inventories of each client and used the reporting tools to examine the results. We distributed a simple in-house application written in Visual Basic to our clients, used the suites' tools to manage client desktop configuration, and implemented license metering. We also ran each suite's remote control and antivirus tools. RELATED LINKSBack to the review
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