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SPECTRUM 7.0 & SPECTRUM ONECLICK, starts at $25,000. Aprisma Management Technologies, (877) 437-0291, (603) 334-2100. www.aprisma.com |
I set up users in the legacy SpectroGraph interface. Then they had to be added manually to a file on the OneClick Web server. Only two levels of users are supported--admin and operator. Given that operators usually need only read and monitoring access, this setup will work fine for most organizations.
You Talk Too Much
The chatty OneClick console caught me off guard. When I first lit it up, its mechanical voice announced the number of alerts and their severity. This voice support may be channeled to a headphone if it will irritate your cubicle mates. But having been a midnight operator, I can testify that an eye-opening yackety-squawk announcing that something is going bump in the night is equivalent to a venti latte, at least.
Topology views have been expanded on the SpectoGraph interface and duplicated on OneClick. In addition to the classic icons with active status, a new Neighbor View gives a quick idea of impact and root cause. I selected to view links between devices, and though I wasn't able to see the ports connecting each device, I could see the IfIndex, which showed neighboring devices. Aprisma says it will add a user-selectable field here in a future release and claims that slot/module/port views will be supported. Good trick if it can be done.
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