The network management market is looking more than a little over-crowded these days – most users want one good system that manages everything, implying that only two or three systems will survive, but Fujitsu Ltd fancies its chances, and has entered the US market with NetWalker, a network management system designed for multi-vendor, multi-system TCP/IP local or wide area network environments – and is on the brink of signing Syntax Systems Inc of Federal Way, Washington to distribute it. The two plan to develop network administration and management technology, so Unix-based NetWalker will be able to operate with Windows and Macintosh machines. NetWalker, in development for three years, was jointly developed in the US and Japan and is used in Japan for major applications in banking, insurance, finance, government and other industries. It offers a fully editable graphical display for a one-window view of the full network and monitoring of individual nodes, a user-defined multimedia alarm system, AutoMap auto-generation of a dynamic graphical representation of the network and subnet configurations, and graphical display of data in real or relative time. It runs on Sparcstations under SunOS 4.1.1 up; $4,500 out now.
