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Email is too easy to ignore, and uses resources and filters that can't guarantee
arrival and immediate display in front of your people.
Nobix Alert software uses few resources, doesn't filter your message, and
puts a pop-up right in the middle of their display that can't be ignored -- especially
if you send an audible notification of your choosing. All this, less than a moment after you press
a button.
You can send messages from the Alert Server's Messaging Interface, as well as build
the command line program into your applications, scripts, email systems, etc. Send
messages directly from your applications to your desktops. You have full control
over recipients and distribution lists. Both HTML and plain text are supported in the display.
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Use Alert to send messaging for any reason
- System shutdowns
- Meeting reminders
- Emergency alerts
- Build it into your applications
- Anything you can think of...
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Alert is your best solution for immediate communication to your staff,
with messages that cannot be ignored.
Once the message box pops up on their display, the user can either choose to acknowledge
the message, or overtly ignore it. Either way, their response is logged on the Nobix
Alert server.
This software is so easy to install and use. The user's desktop installation takes
just a few moments, can be remotely installed from the Alert server, and requires
no interaction on the part of the user. The Alert server is normally installed in
just a few minutes. No special "extra" software is required. Everything you need
is in the download.
Alert server software comes with an easy-to-use interface. With it
you can...
- Send a message
- Manage distribution lists
- Set message schedules
- Manage recipients, including auto recipient generation
- View message/recipient status
- View message history
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Alert Server is licensed for one or more Windows platforms and is very
reasonably priced at just $50 for 5 recipients, and $499 per 100 recipients, for
a one year subscription. Via appropriate licensing, the server can send to any number
of desktops. The user's desktop software that displays the pop-up's and that users
interact with has no license fee.
Download the free trial for 5 recipients (runs for two weeks) and evaluate this
software for yourself. Go to Download
Page.
A single Nobix Alert command line interface is included with the Windows
Alert server, and additional versions are also available for most every environment,
including UNIX, Linux, Windows and MPE/iX. The MPE version has no
license fee.
Features
Benefits
Interface
Specifications
- Windows interface for sending messages and configuration.
- Alert pop-ups display in front of the user a moment after the message is sent.
- Message transmissions and responses are logged.
- Pop-ups may play a sound, or beep, for any specified time period until acknowledged.
- Alert pop-ups can be scheduled in advance or set as repetetive and used as reminders.
- Failed message transmissions are automatically re-tried until they expire.
- Can be integrated into applications and scripts which allows almost any software
to initiate an alert.
- Distribution lists for easy one-click selection of small or large numbers of users.
- Easily integrated with OpenView, MOM, and others.
- Broadcast notifications- alerts can be broadcast to multiple personnel simultaneously.
- Pop-ups are displayed in a tightly controlled browser dialog. You may display plain
text or formatted HTML.
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- Everyone becomes more efficient by reducing the time it takes to alert your staff
of immediate issues, problems or errors.
- Increases the value of your background applications by now allowing them to talk
directly to your desktops.
- Raises productivity through automated notification.
- Reliability and speed that email can't match.
- A real attention grabber when the pop-up alert appears.
- Gives you the ability to immediately communicate with messages that can't be ignored.
- Nobix Alert has an extremely quick return on your software investment.
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Windows Dialogs
A single interface is used for sending messages, administraiton, control and monitoring.
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Messaging Interface
- Message Composition
- Message Status
- Distribution Lists
- History
- Stored Text
- Scheduled Messages
- Log file access
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Deployment
- Automatic Deployment
- By Domain Logon
- By Address Range
- Silent Installation
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Nobix Alert Server
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Runs as a service under Windows. Includes a Windows messaging interface for administration
and sending, as well as the command line messaging program.
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Nobix Alert Pop-Up Alerter
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Runs in the background on a users's Windows workstation. Automatically pops messages
under command from the Nobix Alert Server. May be remotely and silently installed
from the alert server using the included deployment program.
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Network Requirements
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An operable TCP/IP & UDP network. Requires two configurable port numbers, which
default at 31242 and 31243.
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Database
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Either an existing instance of Microsoft SQL Server (or Express) or a new instance
of Microsoft SQL Express (supplied with the software).
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Message Size
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The maximum message transmission size is 16384 characters.
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Operating systems
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Nobix Alert Server - Windows XP sp2 or later, 2003 Server, 2008 Server, Vista, 32
or 64 bit.
Pop-Up Alerts - Windows XP sp2 or later, 2003 Server, 2008 Server, Vista, 32 or
64 bit.
Command line alerters are available for HP-UX, 11.0 and later; AIX, 5.1L and later;
Solaris 7 and later; Redhat 7 and later and RHEL; opepnSUSE; Windows XP and later.
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Hardware Architecture
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Nobix Alert Server - x86 & x64
Pop-Ups - x86 & x64
Command line alerters - HP, HP-PA & Integrity; IBM, pServer & p series;
Sun, Sparc/sun4u; Linux x86.
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Disk Space
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Nobix Alert Server - Normal usage: 100MB typical
Nobix Alert Pop-Up - Normal usage: 10MB typical
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Security
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All communication connections are encrypted.
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Support
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Includes 24/7 email support through the Nobix Alert support portal available at
www.nobix.com.
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