Westborough, Massachusetts-based Banyan Systems Inc has announced a spate of products, including OutLook 1.0 for HP OpenView, the first Windows network management application within its DeMarc Distributed Enterprise Management Architecture strategy. According to the company, the offering creates maps of a network for problem-solving and administrative purposes. With these maps, says Banyan, users can chooseany server or client icon and access usage and capacity statistics, or determine the version and serial numbers of networking software. The product is said to enable discovery and mapping of network resources over Vines IP, TCP/IP and IPX, and uses the company’s StreetTalk directory services to name network resources in map layouts. It is shipping now, at ú1,700 per user. Also as part of DeMarc, the company is releasing Banyan SNMP Agent Version 2.5, which is said to add the ability to perform Simple Network Management Protocol-based node discovery and layout, and which can combine with OutLook and Enterprise Network Services Management Tools for graphical network management and user administration. Supported protocols include Banyan IP, TCP/IP, IPX and AppleTalk. It is available now for ú575 per server. In addition the company has announced Banyan TCP/IP Applications Suite, a family of Windows, MS-DOS and OS/2 client applications, servers, and utilities, including NFS Client, NFS Server, Telnet and NetBIOS. The suite also includes a Windows Sockets version 1.1 compliant dynamic link library for support of Windows applications written in accordance with the specification, according to the company. The Applications Suite is available in 50-user packs that cost ú4,200, and 20-user packs that sell for ú2,400.
