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| Lithium Xserve, Xserve RAID and Airport |
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Lithium can now monitor your Xserve (G5 & Intel Xeon), Xserve RAID, Airport, Qlogic Fibre Channel Switch and Mac OS X Server -- as well as all the rest of your network and service infrastructure. North Sydney, Australia--2nd April 2007--LithiumCorp has today officially launched it's new range of montoring plug-ins to provide unparalleled hardware and software monitoring for Xserve (G5 and Intel), Xserve RAID, Qlogic Fibre Channel Switches, Airport wireless base stations (including the new 802.11n units) and Mac OS X Server. These new plug-ins extend LithiumCorp's network, server and appliance monitoring suite -- "Lithium" -- to provide a depth of monitoring for these specific products that is not found in any other third-party application. Previously the domain of Apple's own 'monitoring' tools, Lithium now provides a real alternative for managers of Apple-centric server and storage deployments that need a monitoring system that can competently handle these specialized devices as well as providing solid SNMP monitoring support for all the rest of their network equipment. Lithium is a network monitoring system (NMS) designed for end-to-end Apple and Mac OS X support. It's feature set is comparable to Nagios, Intermapper and other similar commercial open source applications. What makes Lithium different and sets it apart from it's competitors is the use of stunning graphical interfaces and a depth of monitoring that is simply unparalleled in it's field. Whilst other products, including Nagios, Cactii and Intermapper provide a limited degree of monitoring for the Xserve and Xserve RAID products none come close to the level of detail provided by Lithium. We have adopted the use of Apple's proprietary monitoring protocols, SNMP and the new IPMI (Lights Out Management) standards to deliver a complete solution that looks and performs the way you'd expect a Mac-based monitoring system to. The new Xserve, Xserve RAID, Qlogic, Airport and Mac OS X Server device modules for Lithium are available for purchase online and range from $5US-$39US per device. For new customers who want to try Lithium and also want to get a taste for how well it can monitor these specialised devices, we have also launched a new "Lithium Xsampler" product that comes with single-device licenses for each of the new modules launched today for a 3 month period. The Xsampler bundle is available for $29US through our online store (http://secure.lithiumcorp.com/shop). To co-incide with the release of the new Xserve, Xserve RAID, Qlogic, Airport and Mac OS X device module monitoring plug-ins, LithiumCorp has launched a revised Support site and a new-look Online Store. The new Support site (http://support.lithiumcorp.com) provides users with a smooth and guided documentation experience to help them move from getting started with Lithium to making it useful to their organization and through to becoming an advanced user of the product. Likewise, our new Online Store provides dedicated "New Customer" and "Existing Customer" departments to help our customers, both prospective and existing, to find the products they need to build the network, server and appliance monitoring platform that suite their needs exactly. LithiumCorp's mission is to build the network, server and appliance monitoring software suite for the Mac platform. The release of these new monitoring plug-ins is a major step forward in providing the Mac server, storage and enterprise community with a solid alternative to clunky, ugly and incomplete tools that used to be the only way to get any sort of monitoring telemetry from the devices in their infrastructure deployments. Our road map for 2007 includes a number of features and exciting innovations that will continue us on this trajectory. We look forward to shortly announcing TCP/UDP service and protocol monitoring as well as giving our customers the flexibility to quickly and easily create their own custom monitoring modules for Lithium. Links LithiumCorp: Xserve Device Module: Xserve RAID Device Module: Airport Device Module: Lithium Xsampler: Media Contact: James Wilson ( This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it ) |
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 03 April 2007 ) |
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