Three big weeks that will change how you monitor your network.

North Sydney, Australia--22nd January 2007--LithiumCorp, an Australian company that develops network, server and appliance monitoring software for Mac OS X has today released the first beta of it’s new Console 2.0 monitoring application and announced plans to release monitoring plug-ins for Mac OS X Server and Xserve and Xserve RAID devices that will provide unparalleled monitoring and management insight.

Lithium Console is LithiumCorp’s monitoring and management client application that forms part of the Lithium Network Monitoring Platform. Console provides system administrators, network engineers, support staff and management alike with a graphically rich Mac OS X native application to monitor all aspects of their network. The use of Mac OS X native technologies, including Cocoa, enables workflows and efficiency that far surpasses the clunky web-based interfaces common to the network and server monitoring applications of the past.

Version 2.0 of Lithium Console introduces the sleek new user interface that has attracted much media attention since being debuted at Macworld 2007. Dan Miller, Executive Editor for Macworld remarked in his show notes blog that Console was “…one of the most beautiful pieces of Mac software I’ve ever seen…”. The user interface goes beyond good looks to deliver an awesome level of at-a-glance telemetry. Visual Trigger Indictors show threshold regions on level indicators. Level indicators display a graph of recent history within the indicator itself. These and many other new interface features continue the theme of providing all the critical information needed at a glance without clutter and without limiting the depth of information accessible to the user.

The new Device Modules (plug-ins) announced today, to be released on the 29th of January (Xserve RAID) and 5th of February (Xserve / Mac OS X Server) will provide administrators of Xserve servers, servers running Mac OS X Server and Xserve RAID storage arrays deployments with a new way to monitor these devices. All the telemetry and monitoring data previously only available through Apple’s “Server Monitor”, “Server Admin” and “RAID Admin” will be available through, monitored, recorded, analysed and reported on by the Lithium Network Monitoring Platform (NMP). Core, the server-side portion of the Lithium NMP will constantly poll in-depth monitoring data from these devices, analyse the data and raise an incident report in the event of any pre-set condition or threshold being breached.

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