Santa Clara, California-based Bay Networks Inc has enhanced its network management software to improve the management of the remote access products it picked up with its recent acquisition of Xylogics Inc. By integrating Xylogics’s Annex Manager management software into its Optivity management system, says Bay, it has consolidated control of its hubs, switches and routers and Xylogics’s Remote Annex products into a single point of management. Through Bay’s Optivity Enterprise software, network managers can view and configure Xylogics’s stand-alone remote access products and Bay’s 5390 remote access hub modules for the System 5000 using Annex Manager. The company has also announced version 2.0 of Annex Manager, including menu-driven screens for easier set-up and configuratron of remote access servers. The integration of Annex Manager into Optivity Enterprise will be available during the first quarter at no extra cost. Annex Manager 2.0 is out now for systems including SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, RS/6000 AIX and Santa Cruz Unix, with prices starting at $495.
