CONTACT
Brian Clark
Aurora Software, Inc.
P.O. Box 1033
Plaistow, NH 03865
Tel.: + 1-603-382-4200
E-mail: brian@sarcheck.com
PLAISTOW, NH (September 1, 2000) Aurora Software, Inc. has
announced the general release of SarCheck 4.0 for HP-UX. SarCheck
is a performance management tool designed to assist system
administrators in the analysis of system performance by
translating the output of several monitoring utilities in a plain
English or HTML-formatted report. SarCheck identifies performance
bottlenecks, finds runaway processes and memory leaks, recommends
changes to various tunable parameters and hardware
configurations, and quantifies remaining system capacity.
SarCheck is designed to help system administrators learn more
about how their systems work by explaining resource utilization
and capacity limits in plain English. It uses the tools that come
with the operating system, primarily sar and ps, to learn how the
system's resources are being used. It then makes recommendations
for kernel tuning and hardware upgrades, based on how well the
system's resources are utilized. The software also helps the
administrator to diagnose problems remotely, and to quickly
recommend or implement corrective actions. Because SarCheck has
been specifically designed with safety in mind, it will make
detailed recommendations instead of attempting to fix problems
itself. It will also explain the reasons for its recommendations.
There are two big features released in version 4. SarCheck now
gives you the ability to generate your own graphs with the data
collected by sar, using the graphing tool of your choice. Version
4 also allows you to control many of the thresholds used by
SarCheck's rule set. This means that you can now tweak SarCheck
to accommodate a greater number of unusual conditions.
SarCheck runs on many popular UNIX platforms, and support for
other languages is planned. Contact Aurora Software, Inc., P.O.
Box 1033, Plaistow, NH 03865. Tel.: (603) 382-4200; Fax: (603)
382-4247. More information and examples of reports are available
at http://www.sarcheck.com.
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