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- NOVELL INTRODUCES NETWARE MANAGEMENT ENHANCED MAP
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- First Management System to Link Schematic Maps with Floor Plans;
- Includes Graphical Interface for HMI-Compliant Hubs
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- SAN JOSE, Calif. -- February 5, 1992 -- Novell, Inc., today
- announced an optional enhancement package for its NetWare
- Management System, the NetWare Management Enhanced Map, the first
- network management application to discover nodes on a network and
- allow them to be mapped into a building floor plan.
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- The product also includes Novell's Hub Services Manager (HSM)
- application, the first graphical user interface for HMI-compliant
- hubs. HSM gives users a hardware-independent, easy-to-use network
- wiring management solution. HMI, or Hub Management Interface, is
- an open Novell specification that lets hub card manufacturers
- integrate their products with the NetWare environment to create
- reliable, server-resident or standalone intelligent connectivity
- solutions.
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- "Networks are so critical to organizations today that downtime has
- to be minimized," said Duane Murray, vice president and general
- manager of Novell's Network Management Products Division. "Because
- the NetWare Management Enhanced Map associates network nodes with
- their precise location, a network manager can go straight to a
- malfunctioning device and fix it or isolate it before it can bring
- down the rest of the network. This fulfills Novell's mission to
- grow the network computing industry by making network management
- easier, faster and more reliable."
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- NetWare Management Enhanced Map Features
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- Novell's NetWare Management Enhanced Map offers these key features
- and functions:
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- o Locational mapping -- Users can load bit-map images of their
- building layouts using a scanner or many standard graphics
- tools. Automatically discovered network devices, represented
- by icons, may be overlaid onto these images by selecting an
- icon and dragging it onto the appropriate location on the map.
- This links objects with their exact location, allowing network
- managers to find a malfunctioning networked device quickly.
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- o Enhanced auto-discovery -- The NetWare Management Enhanced Map
- can discover IP routers to provide an integrated view of an IP
- network; Hub Management Interface-compliant Hub cards to
- provide a complete physical network view; and additional
- logical mapping data. %Full SNMP support in IP environments --
- The NetWare Management Enhanced Map contains a "MIB Browser"
- utility that can manage any SNMP (Simple Network Management
- Protocol) device, including Novell's recently introduced
- NetWare for Macintosh MIB.
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- Hub Services Manager Offers Graphical Control of Structured Wiring
- With the NetWare Management Enhanced Map, Novell is including a
- Windows-based management application, Hub Services Manager, that
- can manage structured wiring functions. Working in conjunction
- with the NetWare Management Map, HSM automatically discovers
- devices connected to the hub, maps them logically, and displays
- statistics on hub status, port utilization rates, and monitors
- statistics between attached nodes.
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- Pricing and Availability
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- Novell's NetWare Management Enhanced Map (Windows) will be
- available through Novell's distribution channels in July 1992 for
- the suggested list price of US$1995. The Hub Services Manager
- application is included at no extra cost.
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- Pricing applies in the United States and Canada only. For pricing
- outside the United States and Canada, customers should contact
- their local Novell Authorized reseller.
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- Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL) is an operating system software
- company, the developer of network services, specialized and general
- purpose operating system software products including NetWare, DR
- DOS, DR Multiuser DOS and FlexOS. Novell's NetWare network
- computing products manage and control the sharing of services, data
- and applications among computer workgroups, departmental networks
- and business-wide information systems.
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