Product brief of ProductivityNet's flagship product, ActiveManage. ActiveManage was a system management product, allowing IT administrators to manage any number of servers from a wireless device (which at the time was a Palm VII or WinCE) or the web.

1. ActiveManage:
Anywhere, Anytime
™
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ActiveManage
 Anywhere, anytime active control
 Intuitive interfaces
 Web and Wireless
 Unified and familiar interfaces
 Enabling productivity gains from the networked
environment
 Proactive responses, preventative actions
 The tool for the network administrator to continually
improve Quality of Service

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Why ActiveManage?
= Blowing Money
& Productivity
Away
= Continual
improvement
to network quality
Active Control

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What is ActiveManage?
Clients ActiveManage
Server
Agents
Web, Palm
& Pocket PC
Windows,
Linux,
Solaris
Windows 2000

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ActiveManage Architecture
Native
Sys. Calls
Encrypt.
AgentsWindows Solaris Linux
Agent Interface
IPC Engine
Client
Comms
Alert
Engine
Cross
Platform
Engine
DB
Engine
Web Servlet WIP Servlet
IIS Web Server
DB
KVM
Engine
Native
Sys. Calls
Encrypt.
Native
Sys. Calls
Encrypt.
Web
Palm
PocketPC
Interbase
Oracle
MS SQL
JDBC

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Key Features
 Active Controls
 Web & Wireless Console
 Heterogeneous & Multiple Platforms
 Remote KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse)
 Secure & Encrypted
 Flexible & Fast Configuration
 Extensible SDK Architecture

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Active Controls
 Alert Engine
 Triggers on performance or
application counters
 possible on 1000’s of
counters
 Notify on events, conditions
and thresholds
 to cell phones, PDA or e-
mail
 Automated responses
through rules
 Established by admin.
 History stored of events and
actions

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Active Control (cont.)
 Rule Based Responses
 Chaining of events &
automated responses
 Escalation of events
 Scheduled responses w/
automated actions
 Generate rule profiles for
common classes of
machines
 Reporting
 Trends – time events, alerts
 System response reporting
 Export to Excel, PDF, Browser

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Web and Wireless
 Portable unified console –
anywhere, anytime
 Full capability to monitor,
diagnose, take actions &
resolve issues
 Familiar dialogs and
commands using native
system calls
 Actively respond to alerts and
events
 Continuous access to
conditions to improve network
quality

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Heterogeneous Platform
 Perform commands
transparently across
multiple platforms
simultaneously
 Complete access to IT
environment from unified
web, and wireless
interfaces
 Easy to move between
systems
 Unified view of active alerts
and responses

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Remote KVM
 Secure & encrypted control of
user environment
 Compliments help desk
functionality
 Remote access to system for
diagnosis and repair
 Tools for experts from remote
locations
 Reduce costs associated with
system troubleshooting and
repair
 Closes the loop to the system
in ActiveManage

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Secure & Encrypted
128 bit
SSL
128 bit
AES
WIP
128bit
SSL
128 bit
AES
WIP
IISWebServer
HTTP
Encap
AgentInterface
ActiveManage Server
128 bit
SSL
Encrypt
Clients
Agents
128 bit
SSL
Encrypt

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Flexible & Fast Configuration
 Flexible
 Control over systems at highly
granular levels
 Establishes permissions for
multiple servers from single
environment
 Supports multiple network
admin. roles or sub-
administrators
 Configuration
 Agents
 Small footprint, low use of
bandwidth & resources
 Predefined templates for rapid
deployment
 Discovery – ActiveManage
Server automatically finds
running server agents

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Demonstration
Active Control

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Feature Comparison
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Web Console   
Wireless 
View Processes  
Control System   
KVM Access   
Users/ Groups 
Event Log  
Active Directory  
Registry 
Network Settings 
Alerting (Sys, Prot, SNMP)  
Windows     
Linux   
Solaris  
SNMP Devices   

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Platform Availability
 Clients
 Web Browser – IE 5.0 and above
 Palm OS 3.2 and above (e.g. Palm, Visor, Kyocera Smartphone)
 PocketPC 3.0 and above (e.g. Compaq iPoQ)
 Client Connectivity
 PalmNet
 Wireless Ethernet - 802.11x
 Personal Area Network - Bluetooth
 Server
 Windows 2000 Server w/ SP2
 Internet Information Server (IIS) installed
 100 MB hard drive space, and 128 MB RAM minimum depending on usage
 Agents
 Windows NT 4.0 SP5+
 Windows 2000 Professional & Server
 Windows XP
 Redhat Linux 6.2+
 Mandrake Linux 7.2+
 Solaris 2.8
 Routers (future)

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Key factors for rapid ROI
 Agents
 Intelligent & autonomous, acting at the system level
 Alerts & Rules
 Detect a deterioration in service in advance of failure
 Rules to automatically correct & escalate
 Determine Root Cause of Problems
 Alerts and controls of the system at fine levels of granularity
 Act on end user experience, close the loop to the user
 Accessibility
 Ability to respond anywhere, anytime
 Rapid Implementation
 Easy to deploy agents, predefined rules and alerts

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Next Steps
 Download a Test License
 30 Day trial license: www.productivitynet.com/download
 1 Server and 10 Workstations
 Optional – Request a CD
 Live Trial
 1 week remote access to ProductivityNet ActiveManage
Server
 2 Server Agents, 2 Workstation Agents