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Tivoli's Gift To Intranets: Systems Management

Toolset lets managers monitor servers, enforce rules
By Clinton Wilder
Issue date: March 25, 1996

Tivoli Systems, making its first strategic move since being acquired by IBM last month, will bring its flagship systems management software into the fast-growing world of corporate intranet management.

At the Internet & Electronic Commerce Conference and Exposition in New York on March 25, Tivoli will roll out net.TME, an intranet management version of its Tivoli Management Environment toolset for managing corporate networks. The key component of net.TME is Tivoli/ net.Commander, which lets network managers monitor multiplatform intranet servers across an enterprise and enforce user standards for Web browser configuration, Internet access, and password control.

Tivoli's move to provide industrial-strength management tools signifies the maturing of the Internet into an important corporate resource. "The traditional systems management companies are starting to bring some level of stability to the Wild West characteristics of the Net," says Val Sribar, service director in the Reston, Va., office of the Meta Group, a market research firm. "That needs to happen, and corporations will pay for it."

Companies that use Tivoli tools to manage client-server networks hail the Austin, Texas, company's move to intranets. "We have a significant investment in Tivoli and if they can support our intranet efforts, that' s an excellent idea," says Dave Kessell, VP of infrastructure projects at brokerage Charles Schwab & Co. in San Francisco. "It's a lot better to consolidate the same vendor's [intranet management] software into the tools we already have, rather than have to find something else."

The first release of Tivoli/net.Commander is available for $5,000 per server and $49 per client. The software supports Netscape servers running Solaris Sun/OS and Netscape Navigator browsers running on Windows 95, NT and 3.1. The second release, due by June, will support Microsoft's Internet Information Server running on NT Server and its Internet Explorer browser running on Win95, NT, and 3.1

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