Macsimum Migration Kit: alarm monitoring software for the Mac

Posted by Dennis Sellers Jun 29, 2007 at 1:34am

For those new to the column, Macsimum Migration is our term for companies moving from Windows machines to Macs—or at least adding or increasing the number of Macs they use. A Macsimum Migration kit is an overview of Mac OS X products for a particular occupation, such as dentistry, accounting, etc. This week we’re offering part one of our two-part series on alarm monitoring software for the Mac.

Alarms Pro

If you’re looking for products in this area, your best bet is AlarmsPro), an alarms system that primarily watches cellular and telephone office equipment. AlarmsPro provides such functions as audio alerts, spoken alerts, pager and e-mail alerts, dynamic Web delivery, and a network GUI (graphical user interface). It offers the functionality to make your telephony devices Ethernet smart and interconnect all your equipment even where direct network access is unavailable.

AlarmsPro also offers storage and archival of office, domestic, network and remote site alarms. It’s an automated dispatch system that allows each alarm to be notified with three adjustable shifts per day. And it integrates the ability to pull forward and display circuit layout cards and specific related information to aid the dispatcher and technician understanding and restoring faults. Also incorporated in the system is InterMapper software to deliver alarms about the general network health.

AlarmsPro also offers remote hut alarms, that lets users watch standard digital inputs, as well as analog points that report on continued alarm or drop/raise of the condition. This system has purportedly been specifically engineered to provide a comprehensive alarm and control system that will grow with your need. It supports multiple protocols, local I/O, PLC/RTU programmability, remote diagnostics, multiple physical topologies, TCP/IP connectivity, and “PUSH” or event based reporting. The system provides reminder alarms if it’s not repaired when needed. There’s also automatic time clock sync, “Keep Alive” messages from sites, an alarm on lack of Keep Alive, and more.

MultiAlarm

MultiAlarm is a security tool that is used to defense against unauthorized users from using a machine locally or stealing the machine. When the alarm is armed, depending on the configuration this application the movement of the laptop or mouse and keyboard will set a sound alarm and perform other alerts.

For an in-depth round-up of Mac products, go to the Macintosh Products Guide.

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