Novell has announced the availability of Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) network analysis and enhanced protocol support for ManageWise, the industry-leading PC network management solution. The ManageWise FDDI network analysis is compliant with the industry standard for Remote Monitoring (RMON) and is based on Novell`s market-leading LANalyzer network analysis technology. With this new capability, ManageWise speeds network problem resolution and reduces downtime for FDDI networks. By adding FDDI support to this network management software solution, Novell now provides the broadest range of choice in LAN standards. In addition to FDDI, ManageWise also supports Ethernet and Token-Ring networks. FDDI is a 100Mbps network standard that provides a stable, reliable and fault-tolerant network backbone. ManageWise helps administrators maintain network availability by minimising or avoiding network downtime, thereby increasing the total value of the network and increasing user productivity. ManageWise FDDI analysis reduces network ownership costs by automatically providing the information administrators need through the ManageWise console so they can troubleshoot and fine-tune FDDI networks. ManageWise also provides valuable documentation through extensive automated reporting capabilities generating network performance and health trend reports in HTML format for publishing on the Web. By automatically detecting existing and potential network problems, ManageWise provides SNMP alarms immediately to network managers, allowing many network problems to be avoided. The LANalyzer network dashboard shows administrators network health at a glance and lets them simply point and click to capture and decode network packets to conduct more in-depth diagnostic investigations. The LANalyzer analysis functionality is a seamlessly integrated part of ManageWise so customers will find it a natural, intuitive part of troubleshooting their PC network environments. "By bringing ManageWise functionality to FDDI networks, we are allowing customers to tune and manage their entire network from backbones and routers to servers and Pcs," says Stafford Masie, product marketing manager Novell SA "Quickly isolating problems with easy and intelligent interfaces is what ManageWise does best and it is critical to maximising the productivity of employees." The network analysis component of ManageWise is a combination of RMON agents that reside on each NetWare server and the ManageWise Console user interface. ManageWise, with LANalyzer, supports the leading protocols including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, AppleTalk and SNA. Important new protocols, such as DHCP, SMTP and BOOTP, have been added in this release.
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