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Candle, one of the top vendors of performance measurement and system monitoring tools for mainframes, originally planned to ship pieces of its distributed Candle Command Center technology last year. However, the project was delayed because of technical and marketing changes, Candle executives said.
The Santa Monica, Calif., firm is now targeting June for an initial Command Center release that would monitor several Unix systems from OS/2-based consoles tied into MVS mainframes. Expanded monitoring support plus additional console and server platforms are scheduled to be added later this year and into next year (see box).(Box omitted)
Candle is promising some potentially user-pleasing features such as cross-platform visual programming of problem alert rules and support for application-level monitoring, said Paul Mason, a management software analyst at International Data Corp. in Framingham, Mass.