FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT
Donald Winterhalter
Aurora Software Inc.
PO Box 1033
Plaistow NH 03865
Tel.: (603) 382-4200, fax: (603) 382-4247
http://www.sarcheck.com
PLAISTOW, NH (July 15, 1997) -- Aurora Software Inc. is shipping Version 3 of SarCheck for SCO UNIX. SarCheck is a performance management tool designed to assist the system administrators and VARs in the analysis of a UNIX system's performance by translating the output of various monitoring utilities into a plain English report. SarCheck identifies performance bottlenecks, runaway processes, and memory leaks, recommends changes to the tunable parameters and hardware configuration, and quantifies the amount of remaining system capacity. Version 3 of SarCheck is fully Year 2000 compliant.
SarCheck is designed to save system administrators time and to help them learn more about how their systems work, because it explains resource utilization in plain English. The software also helps VARs to identify problems remotely, and to quickly recommend or implement corrective actions. Because SarCheck has been specifically designed with safely in mind, it will make detailed recommendations rather than automatically try to fix problems itself. It will also explain the reasons for its recommendations so that the administrator can understand why SarCheck is making them.
SarCheck reports consist of three sections and a summary. The first section contains recommendations which can be used to improve system performance, including changes to tunable parameters, disk load balancing, and hardware upgrades. 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.
A single SarCheck license for SCO UNIX costs $199 and other licensing options are available. SarCheck is available for other UNIX platforms 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. More information and sample reports are available at http://www.sarcheck.com
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