10-Strike LANState 2.0 Visual Network Mapper Helps Network Administrators Manage Networks
November 17, 2005 -- 10-Strike LANState is a network management and administration software solution for corporate Microsoft Windows networks. LANState contains a network device status monitor, which allows administrator to see the state of network on a graphic map at any time, and obtain notifications on the time devices become available and the time they go out, and thus ensure prompt responding to various events.
LANState generates the network map, which speeds up accessing to remote hosts' properties and resources, and managing those. Employing LANState makes it essentially easier to monitor processes in networks of any ranges or sizes because of the opportunity to link external applications like file managers or remote administration software to the program. The program includes a number of useful features for obtaining information on remote computers. The software does not require installing any software on the remote computers.
The functionality of the program is based on periodical polling of devices available on the graphic map by pinging them or attempting to connect to the required TCP port over the network. Administrator may set up the program's response to particular events (device on/off). Those may include: displaying a message, playing a sound, sending an e-mail, running external programs, recording to a log, sending a message to a mobile phone.
LANState also offers several handy features especially helpful to the system administrators:
Modeling a local area network in a visual mode, drawing conditional connecting lines, areas, rooms with phone numbers, employee's names, and then saving the result as map, image and print out.
Monitoring usage of shared resources by other users, and load of a network card
Sending messages to any computer on the network or users group
Shutting down and restarting computers on the network
Turning on remote computers (wake-on-LAN)
Creating reports with hosts and their attributes (DNS, IP, MAC-address table)
Scanning ports (TCP and UDP)
Retrieving computer's network name by its IP address, pinging, tracing routes
Obtaining information from remote computers: registry, event log, devices, services, processes running, resources, connections, accounts, etc.
LANState 2.0 is available at http://www.10-strike.com/lanstate/ for free download. The cost of registering the program is $99.95 U.S.
System Requirements: A standard PC with Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP Network (NetBIOS, ICMP, TCP, UDP must be enabled in your firewall)