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Latest Release of Dartware's InterMapper Integrates Custom Programs Supports Nagios, Big Brother Plugins, Host Resources MIB and Strip Charts Hanover, NH, August 4, 2003 -- Dartware LLC, a provider of cross-platform network monitoring products that help customers maximize network uptime, today announced the latest release of its flagship InterMapper program, which now allows a network administrator to monitor many new kinds of network servers and infrastructure using custom plugin programs. InterMapper provides a real-time view of a network, showing the health of servers as well as the traffic flows through and between critical wired and wireless network devices. With its visually powerful yet simple graphical user interface, InterMapper accurately and easily identifies current and potential issues that would otherwise compromise the performance of a network. Unlike more complex enterprise network management systems, InterMapper offers rapid time-to-value, with its ease of setup, fast problem diagnosis, and clear, simple user interface. This release allows customers to create their own programs (written in C, Perl, or other languages) to test devices, or to use plugins developed for the open-source Nagios or Big Brother systems. Customers can also create plugins that can react to failures and provide corrective actions. In addition, InterMapper can monitor a device's CPU, memory, and disk utilization using the Host Resources MIB, and can create historical strip charts of values read from a device. "InterMapper reflects the diversity of our customer's IT environment. By supporting plugin programs, we are able to provide a more complete view of the network's health," said Richard E. Brown, president of Dartware. "Our customers have unique situations that require tests not available in the base package. They can now create their own tools to do the tests-while still keeping InterMapper's ease of use." New feature highlights include: Plugin Probes - Enables users to create their own programs (written in C, Perl, etc.) to test any variety of networked hardware. Also supports plugins/scripts written for the Nagios and Big Brother packages. Plugin Notifiers - Customers can create programs to customize the notification function, performing commands to reboot a hung server, send instant messages, etc. Host Resources Management Information Base (MIB) - InterMapper can now monitor the important variables regarding CPU, disk, and memory utilization of computers and workstations that support the Host Resources MIB to track how busy their critical servers are, or how much disk space is left. Strip Charts - Gives visibility on historical network performance data. Layout Tools - All the tools for laying out maps that were available in the Traditional Macintosh version of InterMapper are extended to all platforms. New Platforms -- Now runs on Solaris SPARC and x86 as well as Linux (Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian), FreeBSD, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 and Mac Classic/MacOS X. "Dartware's InterMapper has been invaluable in helping me keep my network up and running," said Jeff Mercer, SysAdmin at Business Telecom, Inc. "The new release enables me to use Nagios plugins with my InterMapper server, thus showing me resource metrics as well as simple up/downtime. That helps me detect failure patterns ahead of time. This way, I can not only know what network elements are down, but work to prevent them from going down in the first place." Pricing and Availability InterMapper is priced by the number of devices being monitored. A license to monitor unlimited devices costs $2,395; 200-, 75-, and 25-device licenses cost $1,795, $1,245, and $495 respectively. The companion InterMapper Remote allows customers to operate InterMapper from a remote location. It is sold singly, and in five, ten, and twenty-packs for $245, $995, $1,895, and $3,695, respectively. The prices quoted above include a 12-month Support Subscription that entitles the customer to all versions released during the support subscription. Current InterMapper customers whose support subscriptions are in force as of this date may upgrade to at no cost. To learn more about InterMapper or to download a demonstration version, please visit our Web site at http://www.intermapper.com/binaries/demodownload.html . About Dartware, LLC: Hanover, NH-based Dartware, LLC develops network monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting software. Flagship product InterMapper(R), a network monitoring and alerting tool, was initially developed and implemented at Dartmouth College to monitor the College's campus network. The College began marketing it commercially in July 1996, and in April 2000, Dartmouth transferred the software titles to the newly formed company. Today, Dartware, LLC offers additional products including InterMapper Remote, MacPing, and SNMP Watcher as well as selected third-party hardware and software products. To date, InterMapper has been successfully deployed in more than 30 countries worldwide in a variety of markets including financial services, healthcare, retail, K12 and higher education and government, as well as with ISPs. 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