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I   don't  know   about   Boole   &   Babbage's   NetCommand.  However,
on   25-MAR-1991   B&B   announced    announced  a   Systems   Network
Architecture (SNA) monitor  that  measures the availability of network
components.

Net/Avail    Release  1.0  collects    information    about    Virtual
Telecommunications  Access  Method  (VTAM)  component    and  resource
outages,  performance  histories,  and number of  sessions  terminated
because of an outage;  it also  derives  availability  and reliabiltiy
statistics.

The    monitor    generates    user-defined    reports    that    show
short-and long-term trends.  Besides showing network availability from
a central operations  view, it presents data from the perspective of a
user at a terminal, the company said.

Net/Avail  interfaces  with  IBM's    NetView   and  Systems  Center's
NET/MASTER.  It became available in July ('91) for US$20,000.

I'll ask around RE: NetCommand.

daniel

    The customer that I am currently supporting has also evaluated the B&B
    product and has been very impressed with it. I don't think you can
    manage entities from the B&B product (like managing a IV node, for
    example). My understanding is that you have to feed it events (and what
    they stand for) and it does similar to the Alarm/notification services.
    I think it runs on a SparcStation.
    
    Raja

    Net/Command  is  a  PC-based  software  product which lets users  access
    and  utilise  diagnostic  monitoring  and  control  tools  from a single
    netwrok intelligent workstation.  It gathers alerts from  network  tools
    including modem/mux monitors, matrix switches, host software performance
    monitors and security systems.  Net/Command will filter  and  prioritise
    information by consolidating the diagnostic and monitoring data.

    The product operates on a SUN 3/60 workstation with  a  colour  monitor,
    mouse  and  LAN  interface.   It  is  based  on a SYBASE DBMS explicitly
    designed for the consolidation of the  alerts  received  by  Net/Command
    from  connected  network  management tools.  The following functions are
    supported:

    1.  Up to 24 multiple windows can be displayed (for detailed
        alert and status information)

    2.  SQL database query facilities

    3.  Standard and custom reports for real-time happenings and
        for   historical   traces   (with  text   and   graphics   
        formats available).   Reports can   be  displayed and/or 
        printed

    4.  Scheduled unattended functions are supported

    5.  Database administration facilities


    The Net/Command displays are colour-coded so that the  user  can  see  a
    summary  of  the  current  state of active alerts from connected network
    management systems, either in tabular or graphic form.  Windows  can  be
    common, shared or user-specific.

    The user  can  access,  query,  and/or  annotate  any  stored  data  and
    correlate  information  received  from different vendors' systems.  Also
    extraction of alert information based on various criteria, such as  time
    periods,  geographic  regions,  network  tools, alert type and severity,
    operators, etc.  is available.

    The Net/Commaned product is positioned  as  a  system  enabling  network
    managers  to  monitor many types of systems on the network from a single
    graphics workstation.  It is viewed as complementary to IBM's NetView in
    that  the  management information, once collected and correlated, can be
    forwarded to an IBM host NetView application.

    THE ABOVE CAME FROM A DOCUMENT SUPPLIED  BY  ONE  OF  OUR  DECMCC  JOINT
    DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS.