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70 -- REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR A SOFTWARE PRODUCT Contact: Gary Moeller, Procurement, 713/335-5100, Fax 713/335-5070. Loral Space Information Systems (LSIS) is seeking qualified sources to provide a product in support of the NASA Johnson Space Center under Contract No. NAS 9-18300. LSIS is requesting information concerning a COTS Status and Control Tool, consisting of management tool, server agent and graphical user interface display functions which are capable of supporting real-time operations. This Status and Control Tool will be used by NASA personnel in support of institutional operations associated with flight operations for both the Space Shuttle and Space Station Programs. The product must meet or exceed the following mandatory requirements: The product must provide for the support of real-time operations with event data sent to a management console by intelligent agents on managed stations independent of polling by the management console; Data and commands between management console and managed agents will be transported across a local area network, the product must support the TCP/IP communications protocol and operate across FDDI and Ethernet local area networks; The product must run continuously during mission operations; The software must be available on a variety of UNIX platforms. As a minimum, the software must be available on DECStations under ULtrix, DEC Alphas under OSF Versions 2 and 3, IBM RS/6000 under AIX, and SUN under SunOS; The product must provide the capability to extend monitoring to other UNIX applications based on the existence, non-existence or information contained in a given UNIX file or process. The product must include the ability to use existing and new UNIX shell scripts and C and C++ programs. The product must also provide portability of display formats, configuration files, and status data among supported platforms; The product must support data display and control interaction capabilities on the same display without requiring development of display specific software. Also, the display product must be based on the target workstation(s) OS X window and Motif versions as appropriate; The product must be able to propagate alarms and events to the POLYCENTER Manager on NetView, and allow viewing of the console window from the POLYCENTER Manager on a NetView display; The product must support remote logon to all managed systems; Resources managed must include processes, CPU, memory usage, disks, network load, users, file system utilization, kernel tables, security and printers. The product must support printer query and maintenance commands; The product must be able to recognize and monitor custom developed applications; The product must log the operational status of managed servers; The product must display critical resource utilization; The product must activate an alarm when a server application switches frm nominal to critical status (up to down); The product must provide an alarm override; The product must support configurable reporting rates and the product must have the capability to automatically discover all managed applications on monitored machines. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP); it is a request for information and planning purposes only. LSIS does not intend to issue a purchase order on the basis of this request, or to pay or otherwise reimburse any offeror for any information received. Send replies to Loral, at the address provided to the attention of Gary Moeller, no later than close of business on Friday, March 3, 1995. (039)

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