Legent Corp is shipping seven additional members of its Prevail/XP software which provide cross-system automation, document management and production control for its HP-UX-based XPE systems management environment. Prevail/XP- Automation-Point is the first fruit of the Herndon, Virginia-based company’s agreement to tie its management software in with Hewlett-Packard Co’s OpenView network management suite. Based on a single point of control for automation activity, the module enables OpenView OperationsCenter to be integrated with XPE. Example configurations – managing an AS/400 or mixed Digital Equipment Corp-Tandem ComputersInc environment from HP-UX – cost from $2,000. The Automation Point base product is free of charge. Prevail/XP-Deliver, -View and -Spool are report distribution, viewing and remote printing tools and are Legent’s first document management modules. It says documents can be printed, viewed and controlled from mainframes and local area networks. Prevail/XP-Connect, which provides mainframe-to-local area network print file transfer now supports NetWare as well as OS/2. The modules are priced by processor group: the software on an ES/9000 Model Group 40 machine starts around $26,000. Prevail/XP-Jobtrac Remote controls scheduled events across multiple systems via agents and costs $41,200 for the manager – agents are $1,000 to $5,000. Prevail/XP now comprises 18 programs in five suites.
