Proven, Award-Winning Technology from Industry Leaders
Networking creates a multivendor environment that should rest on a solid, standards-based foundation. Any effective management solution has to fit into that environment, but it is rare that a single vendor can provide all the network components. That's why Novell and Intel have teamed together to provide an open solution that extends easily with more than 100 add-on products from industry leaders.
Novell and Intel are leaders in the networking and desktop world, delivering high-quality solutions for years. To create a complete management solution, we've integrated and developed the best technologies and tools. Novell contributes its NetWare server management, network analysis and SNMP-based expertise. Intel brings desktop management and virus protection to make ManageWise a proven and highly reliable solution.
According to a recent survey conducted by the Gallup Organization and Computer Reseller News, ManageWise is the most widely deployed management solution used in both large and small companies (See figure 1 below).
Figure 1: ManageWise dominates the management marketplace, both in large and small environments.
Award-winning technology
In addition, ManageWise delivers "best-of-breed" capabilities in one product. These capabilities have won numerous awards over the past years. In the past year, ManageWise has won four awards. These are:
* 1995 Integrators' Choice: Network VAR magazine
* 1995 Readers' Choice Award: NetWare Solutions magazine
* 1995 Readers' Choice Award: LAN Times magazine
* Top Score Award: InfoWorld magazine, April 24, 1995
ManageWise Detects and Repairs Common Network Problems
Effective network computing relies on the continued, efficient operation of your network. ManageWise lets you detect and repair common problems, such as print delays or incomplete application launches. The following details how ManageWise solves these common network problems.
Printing problems
Print problems often involve complex interactions on a network and can reside in a user's desktop hardware or software, on the network or in the printer. ManageWise monitors the network as a system to quickly pinpoint the problem. For example, if a print job stays in the queue too long, ManageWise will notify you and give you the means to re-prioritize or delete jobs as necessary from the same user interface.
Limited access to applications
When a user can't access a previously used application, most network tools don't solve the problem. With ManageWise, you can easily view current configurations of all desktops and servers. Data path changes are readily identified, and you can edit the user's configuration file from the control console location. With NetWare's administration technologies integrated in ManageWise, access rights are easily verified.
Slow network response time
Using ManageWise, you can pinpoint why the network is slowing down at certain times and alleviate the problem. ManageWise collects and analyzes traffic data for as long as two years to help you understand trends. It also lets you know which stations are contributing to traffic. The problem could stem from someone backing up their workstation during peak usage times. With ManageWise, you'll know for sure.
Disk failures
Fault-tolerant mechanisms, such as disk mirroring, will keep a network up after a failure, but the remaining disk becomes a single point of failure. ManageWise lets you know when a mirrored disk fails so you can plan its repair or replacement quickly while users continue their tasks uninterrupted.
Limited storage space on server
ManageWise integrates the capabilities of NWAdmin and lets you solve these storage space issues quickly and painlessly. You simply evaluate the disk and volume usage on the server, allocate more disk space to the affected user and then make improvements to the server's overall disk space assignments.
