Platinum Technology plans to support Cabletron Systems Inc’s Spectrum Enterprise Manager network management environment with a series of point product releases. Cabletron will offer a tool kit for use with Platinum enabling event passing, database information exchange and script integration. The firms say that they will integrate the products in two ways to suit customer demand. They will use a set of common application programming interfaces or Spectrum’s Platform External Interfaces and tools which Cabletron says enables other applications to plug into Spectrum without C or C++ coding (although they run slower than those integrated at the source code level). The companies plan to integrate the following Platinum products with Spectrum: the Apriori client-server help desk product; the Xfer software distribution tool for revising software across networks; the AutoSys client-server job management tool for scheduling jobs across an enterprise; and DBVision, a database performance management and monitoring tool. There is no timeframe for the integration work. Alarm and knowledge-based integration may follow. Platinum may also integrate some of its database management tools for DB2, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Informix, as Spectrum converts to these. Spectrum 4.0 manages mixed Unix and NT networks and includes an enterprise-wide alarm management tool, a policy-based alarm notification manager and new case-based reasoning tool. It runs under HP-UX, AIX, Irix, SunOS, Solaris and Windows NT, and ships this quarter at $15,000 in a one-server version.
