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Network Equipment Performance Monitor project monitors and reports uptime, critical events and their predecessors, bytes-served rates, access rates and error rates for network node equipment.
Hardware and software elements within the nodes are tracked and reported separately to make possible rapid fault isolation. It is a very general, highly configurable, two-part software system that captures and analyzes logged performance data from IP-networked equipment and reports it via email and Web pages.
Current conditions and history from systems based on Windows NT/2000, Unix, and Unix-style operating systems can be tracked and reported.
Most major server, switch and router systems can be monitored, without running agents on the target systems. NEPM itself is system-independent and can be hosted on either a Unix or Win NT system or a combination of these with equal ease.
Enhancements:
MANAGEMENT CONSOLES & REPORTS
- It is now possible to fully manage NEPM from a single browser session: The two separate management consoles have been unified into a single one.
- The reports are now linked and viewed in the same browser session that manages the rest of NEPM, further simplyfying and streamlining the user interface.
- Reports are now served from the same internal web server as the Management Console eliminating the need for an additional web server to serve the reports.
- The Management Console is now always instantly available for faster, easier access. It installs and runs automatically as a service in Windows or as a daemon in Linux/UNIX.
- The user interface has been further simplified by turning off secondary, less important, sections of configuration information, making it possible for the user to focus on the primary parameters. These hidden sections display with a mouse click.
- The choice of Courier directory for transfering captured log files between Courier and Builder is fixed and no longer configurable in the Mangement Console. It can still be configured directly in the control files themselves for use from the command line.
- The Managment Console now *requires* Courier control files to have a .ccf extension and Builder control files to have a .bcf extension. Control files with any extension (or none) may still be used from the command line and a text editor.
- Restored . to directory names in the data path now that reports no longer might be served by IIS, undoing this change made in release 2.0
INSTALL
- Create a Windows Favorite for NEPMLE on install.
- NEPM now is setup and started as an automatic service during install for continous availability.
- Improved the directory structure and scripting for more robust install and uninstall on Windows.
- Fixed a problem that was preventing the TargSys components from installing automatically in some cases.

Lithium Network Monitoring Platform is an integrated and feature-rich platform for monitoring and managing networks, servers, and appliances.
The project is designed to provide an end-to-end solution, and includes automated device monitoring, out-of-the-box support for SNMP, and an integrated trouble-ticket case management system.
The platform is built around a scalable, modular architecture that incorporates a Unix-based server-side component, Windows and Mac OS X clients for user interaction, and a Web-based user interface.
Lithium has built-in support for monitoring device using the industry standard SNMP protocol. Lithium delivers out-of-the-box support for any device that supports SNMP. The Basic and Advanced SNMP modules that ship with LITHIUM|Core deliver monitoring support for common SNMP MIBS. Additional and vendor/device-specific monitoring capability is provided though the use of Device Modules.
Lithium incorporates a tightly-integrated case management system for tracking and recording fault investigation, incident reporting, user requests and communications. Lithium allows you to bind monitored entities to cases. This allows the retrieval of all cases relating to a particular device, network interface, site, etc at any time.
Graphically rich, interactive monitoring and management consoles are available for both Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista. The Console applications provide users with advanced graphing, device browsing, fault management and incident investigation facilities.
Lithiums Core component comes bundled with an OS-independent web-based interface that allows you to view in-depth network monitoring and operational telemetry anytime, anywhere without the need for additional client software.
Built from the ground-up by LithiumCorp for enterprise scalability and reliability, the Lithium Network Monitoring Platform delivers this with a combination of a flexible architecture, process-per-device resourcing and the reliability and stability of a UNIX-based back-end.
Version restrictions:
- FREE Edition License - 10 Devices Maximum
- Professional - 25 Devices Maximum
- Enterprise Edition - UNLIMITED Devices
Enhancements:
- Net-SNMP on Mac OS X server/client locking up when being monitored by Lithium has been fixed.
- A forced reload of the device data tree when uptime discontinuity is encountered.
- Vendor/Device module/User list is made available via XML.
- Reduced syslog debug/info output.
- The build of construct has been fixed to make it universal (PPC/Intel).
- A bandwidth reporting interface with 95% percentile and CSV export has been added.
- Adding/Editing devices now presents a drop-down list of installed modules.
- Re-assigning cases not present a drop-down list of users.

News Content Management makes it easy for non-technical users to update and manage articles, press releases, news stories, headlines, and editorials. No HTML or programming knowledge is required.
News articles can be arranged in any number of categories and category levels, resulting in a very good visitor experience. The news pages can be either embedded into your own Web pages or simply linked to from any pages of a site.
In either case the system provides you with the HTML code necessary and all you have to do is paste a few lines into your own pages.
Main features:
- Full WYSIWYG editor for both Article Summary and Full Body Text
- Very Easy to install with an Installation Wizard doing most of the work.
- Multiple and Multiple Category Levels
- Completely Customizable design with WYSIWYG Font and Color selectors.
- Full Image management
Enhancements:
- This release features a full WYSIWYG editor for both article summaries and body text, an Installation Wizard that does most of the set up work, and support for multiple categories and multiple category levels.
- It also provides completely customizable design with WYSIWYG font and color selectors, full image management, category browsing, simple and advanced searching, news summary displays, and a fully customizable scrolling news headlines box, which can be applied anywhere within a site.