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 (April 9, 2001) Aurora Software, Inc. has announced the general release of SarCheck 4.0 for Solaris SPARC. 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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