FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLAISTOW, NH (June 6, 1996) -- Aurora Software Inc. has announced Version 2 of its flagship product, SarCheck, for HP-UX operating system versions 9.04+ and 10.01+. 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 specific 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 tuning kernel parameters, balancing disk load, and increasing memory size or CPU speed. The second section is an analysis of all system resources monitored by SarCheck. This section contains insights that can help an administrator, even when no resource bottlenecks were detected. The final section, Capacity Planning, is used to approximate how large an increase in workload a system can support, based on the sar data being analyzed.
SarCheck was chosen as one of SCO WORLD Magazine’s “Hot New Products of 1996”.
Versions for other UNIX platforms are available or 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. Email 74013.1625@compuserve.com
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