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CRASH RECOVERY FOR USB MACS
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Now Shipping! You can now order Kick-off! from our secure online store!
Kick-off! provides comprehensive automatic crash detection and recovery for your USB Macintosh. Using the same technology found in our popular Rebound! product for ADB Macs, Kick-off! monitors your system and automatically restarts it when it crashes. Kick-off! provides two levels of application crash detection, advanced logging, "bookmarking" and preventive restarting capabilities. You'll sleep well at night, knowing that Kick-off! is there to provide maximum availability to your server.
FEATURES AND BENEFITS
![[Kick-off! screen shot]](images/kick-off_screen.gif)
Kick-off!
detects system crashes using a patent-pending combination of hardware
and software. The hardware connects to your Mac's USB port and power
cord. While your system is running normally, the software is in
constant communication with the hardware.
If the system crashes, this communication fails. The hardware waits for a user-settable period of time to ensure that the system is not simply busy with other tasks. After this delay, Kick-off! restarts the Mac by temporarily interrupting the power to the computer. No crash is too hard to keep Kick-off! from doing its job!
When an application crashes, other tasks can continue without interruption, so system crash detection will not work. But Kick-off! also includes two levels of application crash detection. One level detects crashes in all applications, and the second level can even detect non-crashing failures in many popular server applications.
The first level of application monitoring intercepts the infamous "application has unexpectedly quit" error messages. The second level goes far beyond this by receiving status information from the applications themselves. Applications with this support periodically update an "application timer" in the Kick-off! software. If the application fails to update this timer, Kick-off! can take appropriate action.
When an application fails at either level, the Kick-off! software can first try to relaunch the application. If this fails, or the application continues to crash, Kick-off! will perform a "clean" Finder restart. If this fails, or the entire system has crashed, the Kick-off! hardware will resort to "pulling the plug," giving the system a fresh start.
Kick-off! can record numerous system and application activities. System administrators can view a detailed log of the date, time, priority, source and nature of activity. The log can track applications launching, quitting and crashing, as well as system startups, restarts, shutdowns and crashes.
Kick-off! can also alert administrators of problems by forwarding high-priority messages to an e-mail address, AppleScript or text file, or even to a pager (using Mark/Space's PageNow! software). An included W*API plug-in allows remote viewing of the log from any web browser.
To round out its list of features, Kick-off! adds automatic "bookmarking" and scheduled restarts. Bookmarking automatically relaunches any applications which were running before Kick-off! restarted the system. Scheduled restarts can minimize the effects of problems such as gradual memory leaks and fragmentation.
Kick-off! consists of a small USB device and a system extension. Simply plug your computer into Kick-off!, connect the USB cable and run the easy software installer. Kick-off! is on the job!
Kick-off! comes preconfigured to work for most systems without needing any special setup. The included control panel makes customization a breeze.
Kick-off! also includes full AppleScript support, so administrators can easily change its settings automatically.
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For more information
Kick-off! user manual in PDF format
Crash Recovery for Macintosh
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