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"James Sentman announces the release of Whistle Blower 3.0 for Mac OS X" Richmond, VA - April 3rd, 2002. James Sentman today released the 3.0 version of Whistle Blower, an enterprise server monitoring and restart utility. This is the first version of Whistle Blower to run natively under Mac OS X. Classic Mac OS and even 68k versions of the program are also available. Whistle Blower 3.0 is a significant upgrade from the previous release. In addition to the native OS X build, it adds many new features. The FileMaker client/server check can now verify the list of shared databases and make sure that all your databases are still being shared. The DNS server task can now run a query against a specific server and validate that the correct IP address is being returned. 3.0 also adds the ability to verify the return from SSL web servers. The MasterSwitch support has been extended to include the MasterSwitch Plus and vertical mount units from APC and the PowerKey support works with Sophisticated Circuits new USB PowerKey models on classic and Mac OS X. Your server tasks can be organized into groups with their own reporting and administration controls. This allows you to create and manage many more tasks that previous versions. Depending on your hardware Whistle Blower may be able to check as many as a thousand different web servers. There is no limit set by the software, only a practical limit set by your hardware. Version 3.0 also adds full AppleScript support. Whistle Blower supports direct connections and verifications of 24 different server types, including: ASIP File Sharing and Printer Sharing, DNS, FileMaker, FirstClass, 4D, FTP, Hotline, IMAP, LDAP, POP3, QuickTime Streaming, Radius Authentication Servers, SMTP, Telnet, Web and Secure Web Servers, as well as generic TCP streams and sending standard pings. The shift notification features allow you to send the page to the person who is actually on duty that weekend, while ignoring scheduled downtime. The web site and secure web site tasks can send form variables to CGI scripts to validate that online systems are not only returning pages, but that they are returning proper data and not error messages. Task dependances will keep you from paging the web server support staff when it's really the router that is down and the web based administration will let you check on, test and restart your servers from anywhere. Responses to outages can be proportional to how long the server has been unavailable, first trying to email you, then sending a page and if the server is still down perform the restart automatically with a connected PowerKey or MasterSwitch. Whistle Blower can alert you via email, or via any number of third party paging software packages. It can also launch an AppleScript in response to an outage allowing you to use virtually any paging or alert system. Whistle Blower is available for a limited time at the 2.0 version price of $90 USD. A "lite" version limiting you to 10 servers is available for $49 USD. This is a free upgrade for all registered users of any previous version. The program has a 45 day time out to give busy network administrators plenty of time to get familiar with it and can be downloaded today from: http://whistleblower.sentman.com/ Thank you, James Sentman __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to NetProLive, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. To subscribe to NetProLive, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE NetProLive". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE NetProLive". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>.
