FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLAISTOW, NH (October 16, 1995) -- Aurora Software Inc. is shipping Version 2 of its flagship product, SarCheck. SarCheck is a performance management tool designed to assist the system administrator in the analysis of a UNIX system's performance by translating sar reports into plain English. SarCheck identifies performance bottlenecks, recommends parameter and hardware configuration changes, and quantifies the amount of remaining system capacity.
SarCheck is an excellent way for system administrators to save time and learn more about how their systems work, because it explains resource utilization in plain English. SarCheck reports consist of three sections and a summary. The first section contains recommendations which can be used to improve system performance, such as changes parameters, balancing disk load, and increasing memory size or CPU speed. The second section is an analysis of all system resources monitored by SarCheck. The analysis section contains insights that can help an administrator, even when no resource bottlenecks were detected. The final section, Capacity Planning, can be used to approximate the amount of capacity left on a system, based on the sar data being analyzed. By looking at the system's peak resource utilization SarCheck determines the amount of additional workload which can be supported before performance degradation would be likely.
"By adding a basic capacity planning feature to SarCheck, we've taken the concept of an 'automated English-speaking
performance assistant' even farther." said Don Winterhalter, President of Aurora Software. "SarCheck not only explains to the
system administrator where resource bottlenecks and performance problems are, but also where they're likely to appear as the
system grows."
Versions for other UNIX platforms are under development and support for other languages is planned. Contact Aurora Software Inc., PO Box 1033, Plaistow NH 03865. Tel.: (603) 382-4200, fax: (603) 382-4247.
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