MKS Releases Free Availability Monitoring Add-On For MKS Toolkit

MKS Releases Free Availability Monitoring Add-On For MKS Toolkit AlertCentre 2.03 Adds Value for all Toolkit users with 24x7 Monitoring FAIRFAX, VA, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MKS Inc. (MKS) announced today AlertCentre(TM) 2.03, the latest version of its advanced, agentless monitoring solution for Windows, providing powerful availability monitoring of critical resources such as websites, databases, and email servers while substantially reducing system management costs. Previously priced at $5,000, AlertCentre is now available to all MKS Toolkit users as a free add-on. Today's network and systems professionals are faced with the challenge of maintaining high availability for a multitude of applications and Internet/intranet-based systems that operate across an infrastructure of various platforms and a wide array of technologies. Given the urgency for businesses to perform, it is becoming increasingly important for IT professionals to look for systems management solutions that provide "peace of mind" by automatically monitoring networks, applications, and Internet/intranet-based systems that are involved in revenue generation. "MKS AlertCentre enables us to keep a 24x7 eye on our systems, without any worries," said Jeff Hiris, Systems Manager for the Centers for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University. "Having a system monitor tool such as MKS AlertCentre, allows us to automate our responses to most critical system failures and provides immediate awareness of problems as they occur." "AlertCentre 2.03 represents the long term commitment MKS has to its customers." said, Tom Bosanko, President, Interoperability Division, MKS, Inc. "It's an award winning product for 24x7 availability monitoring that exemplifies the type of solution that can be built with Toolkit and we're giving it away to all current customers for free. The added value is significant by just using it out-of-the-box, and it's even greater for those who leverage the power of MKS Toolkit to enhance it to solve their own unique monitoring and automation problems." The AlertCentre Add-On automatically triggers actions to be taken upon failures or system events. Using these actions, you can alert people of failures and critical system status through e-mail, cell phone, pager, SNMP trap, or your own custom actions. AlertCentre also allows you to implement an escalation process to notify the right people and take appropriate action based on the severity of a problem. Further, AlertCentre can trigger monitors, scripts, and programs as actions, letting you take automated corrective action. AlertCentre is designed to work out of the box with a wide array of predefined monitors, and because it is built on the powerful MKS Toolkit platform, it is easy to customize. You can configure monitor behavior via the graphical user interface, organize your monitors into easy-to-manage groups, and create custom monitors that integrate with other enterprise management solutions. Pricing and Availability The AlertCentre Add-On is free. It requires any MKS Toolkit Product (v8.7 patch 3 or greater) in order to run and a second copy of MKS Toolkit is needed in order to support monitoring redundancy from a second PC. It is available for download immediately from the MKS website (http://www.mkssoftware.com/reskit). About AlertCentre The AlertCentre Add-on to MKS Toolkit products is a complete solution for monitoring, alerting, corrective action, and automation scheduling. AlertCentre can monitor your mission-critical systems and applications 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide you with the peace of mind of knowing that your network, applications, and Internet/Intranet-based information systems are running normally. About MKS MKS Inc. ("MKS") provides award-winning enterprise software configuration management (SCM) and interoperability software solutions enabling development teams at Fortune 1000 companies such as Park Place Entertainment, Continental Teves, Federated Insurance Companies and Northrop Grumman to analyze, build and deploy software systems quickly and reliably. The company's family of SCM products offer advanced technology with robust workflow, code management, and impact analysis capabilities. Under its widely known MKS Toolkit brand, MKS provides UNIX-Windows co-existence, and system administration that significantly cut development and administrative costs and reduce time to market while enabling enhanced performance. Founded in 1984 with over 10,000 customers worldwide, MKS has built its brand on the foundation of advanced technology, superior quality and extraordinary customer service. More information about MKS can be found at http://www.mks.com/, or by calling 1-800-265-2797 (US & Canada), +49-711-351775-0 (Germany), and +44-1483-733900 (United Kingdom). MKS, MKS Source Integrity, MKS Integrity Manager, MKS Integrity Solution, MKS Toolkit and MKS AlertCentre are trademarks or registered trademarks of MKS Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this release are the property of their respective owners. Source: MKS Inc. CONTACT: Media: Wendy Williams, MKS Inc., Phone: (813) 728-5412, Email: wendym@mks.com; To request a free copy of this organization's annual report, please go to http://www.newswire.ca/ and click on reports@cnw. ------- Profile: International Entertainment