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- ARGUS/n
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- LAN Workstation Monitoring Tool
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- MYTH:
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- In the mythological world of ancient Greece, ARGUS was the faithful
- servent of the Queen Goddess Hera. Although Hera endowed him with
- untiring strength and courage, his most unique features were the 100
- eyes distributed all over his body. ARGUS served as the faithful
- watchman of Hera. His ceaseless vigilance was legendary.
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- FACT:
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- In the complex world of today's LANs, ARGUS/n is the faithful servant
- of Network Managers everyware. Like the ARGUS of myth, ARGUS/n has
- hundreds of eyes, distributed throughout the body of a LAN. One eye
- watches tirelessly over the activity of each LAN workstation. Each
- eye reports back to the main ARGUS/n program, which allows the network
- manager to observe workstation activity throughout the LAN in real-time,
- and to automatically inventory the hardware configuration of each
- workstation.
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- ARGUS/n:
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- Ceaseless vigilance in monitoring the activity and configuration of
- your LAN -- now it's no myth.
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- Description:
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- The ARGUS/n system is a distributed application monitoring system for
- Netware LANs. It is intended for use by system managers to help monitor
- and control network usage. Using ARGUS/n, a single user can monitor the
- status and activity of all network stations in real-time.
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- ARGUS/n consists of two programs: ARGUS, which is the main monitoring
- program that displays information about the network, and ARGUSeye,
- which is a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program that is loaded
- into each station and which keeps track of what is executing and
- what the station's hardware configuration is.
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- Features:
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- ARGUS/n has several different monitoring functions:
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- - ARGUS/n can conduct a hardware inventory of the entire LAN, saving
- the results in a disk file for later use or storage.
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- - ARGUS/n can determine what programs are currently being executed
- in each station on the network. The times at which the programs
- began executing and the number of keystrokes entered into the
- programs is also available. TSRs loaded into workstations can
- also be determined using this function.
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- - ARGUS/n can show a history of programs recently run in each work-
- station on the network. Time and date stamps, keystroke counts, and
- return codes are also shown.
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- - ARGUS/n can determine the hardware configuration of a single LAN
- station on demand, showing CPU Type, video card and monitor type,
- serial and parallel port addresses, disk configuration, and other
- hardware configuration data.
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- Demo Requirements:
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- This demo is a simulation of ARGUS running on an imaginary network of
- fifty stations and does not do any actual network communications.
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- It requires about 400K of free RAM to run, and will function with
- monochrome or color (CGA, EGA, MCGA, or VGA) monitors and video
- adapters.
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- The actual ARGUS/n program has similar hardware requirements and is
- not copy protected, but is serialized.
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- To Run Demo Program:
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- Simply type ARGDEMO and press return.
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- The first screen that you see is the main menu. From it, you can:
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- - Display current activities of all stations on the network.
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- - Change or display the names assigned to workstation addresses.
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- - Perform a hardware inventory of all workstations on the LAN, and
- store the information in a printable file.
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- - Exit back to DOS.
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- If you select "Observe Station Activity", you can scroll through all
- of the responding stations on the LAN, and observe what they are
- doing. By toggling F2, you can see the stations display as either
- network addresses, or as assigned names. By using F3 and F4, you can
- see the stations in sorted order by either name or station ID.
- Pressing F5 will requery the stations for their current activity, and
- F6 will put ARGUS into and automatic query mode where it will requery
- the station every 30 seconds. Pressing Esc will terminate auto-query
- mode.
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- If you press ENTER from this screen, you will get the station detail
- screen. From this screen you can see either the hardware configuration
- for that station, the recently executed programs, or the currently
- executing programs for that station. Pressing Esc will always take you
- to the previous screen.
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- If you select "Manage Station Names" from the main menu, you can see
- the name/address pairs assigned to the network. While this demo version
- will only allow you to view the names using the arrow keys and sort
- them using F3 and F4, the real version allows you to add, delete, or
- edit names, and read/write the data to/from files.
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- If you select "Perform Station Inventory" from the main menu, you will
- be prompted for a file name, which ARGUS will then write the
- configuration information for all stations to.
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- Pricing and Ordering Information:
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- Licensing for ARGUS/n is available per file server, site, or corporate-
- wide. The basic File Server license allows for monitoring of up to 250
- workstations on a single LAN segment.
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- An ARGUS/n server license is $245, which includes a User Manual and
- choice of either 3 1/2" or 5 1/4" floppy diskette. Shipping is via first
- class mail at no extra charge, and other shipping methods are available
- at extra cost.
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- To order ARGUS/n or for more information, call or write...
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- TRITICOM
- P.O.BOX 11536
- St. Paul, MN 55111
- (612) 937-0772
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