Here's What's New!!
This chart will help to keep you informed of the current releases of SarCheck. Further down the page, you'll find a list of recent releases, a list of upcoming holidays, and some information about where we're taking SarCheck in the future. Click on anything you'd like to find out more about. Note that this site is frequently updated with small changes to improve navigation, correct misspellings, fix bad links, etc. Not every update means that a new version of SarCheck is available.
| - - - Status of all products & projects (the order of projects has changed) - - - | ||
| Status & Current Version (mm/dd/yy) | Works with: | |
| SarCheck V6 for Solaris SPARC | Version 6.02.16 released 04/24/08 | Solaris 2.5.1+, 32 & 64 bit |
| SarCheck V6 for Solaris x86 | Version 6.02.16 released 04/24/08 | Solaris 10+, 32 & 64 bit |
| SarCheck V6 for HP-UX | Version 6.02.02 released 03/31/08 | HP-UX 11.00+, 32 & 64 bit |
| SarCheck V6 for AIX | Version 6.03.11 released 04/08/08 | AIX 4.2 - 6.1, 32 & 64 bit |
| SarCheck V7 for AIX BETA | Version 7.00.11 released 05/07/08 | AIX 4.2 - 6.1, 32 & 64 bit |
| SarCheck V6 for Linux | Version 6.01.20 released 04/11/08 | Linux Kernels 2.2 - 2.6 |
| - - - Fun stuff and freeware - - - | ||
| SarCheck propeller hats! | Version 3, distributed at trade shows | Works with your head! :-) |
| Free: freemem for HP-UX | Available now | HP-UX 10.10+, 32 & 64 bit |
| Free: dmap for Solaris SPARC | Available now | Solaris 2.5.1+, 32& 64 bit |
| Free: dnlcmon for Solaris SPARC | Available now | Solaris 2.5.1+, 32& 64 bit |
Stan Kelly-Bootle fans: READ THIS!! Stan's popular column "Devil's Advocate" appeared in Unix Review and Performance Computing magazine for years. The January 2000 demise of Performance Computing would have meant the loss of Stan's work, so we asked him to continue his column here at http://www.sarcheck.com.
Releases in the last 12 months:
Trade show & conference exhibition:
Pictures from previous conferences can be found on our photos page and our exhibition schedule can be found on our conference schedule page. If you can attend any of these events, please visit our booth and take home some eval software or maybe one of our propeller hats. If you can't wait until the next conference to try SarCheck, just fill out our handy order form and we'll send you an eval.
Our US office will be closed for the following US holidays:
| May 26, 2008 | Memorial Day |
| July 4, 2008 | Independence Day |
| September 1, 2008 | Labor Day |
| November 27 & 28, 2008 | Thanksgiving |
| December 25 & 26, 2008 | Christmas |
| December 31, 2008 | New Year's Eve |
| January 1, 2009 | New Year's Eve |
Our US office will be closed on many US holidays. For your convenience, we will be open for business on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Good Friday, Columbus Day, etc. and we expect staffing to be light on those days but a number of people will be here if you need to contact us. Our UK office will be closed on many UK holidays.
The future of SarCheck: The first beta copies of SarCheck Version 7 for AIX are now shipping. SarCheck Version 7 for other platforms will follow shortly.
Other operating systems? If you're interested in SarCheck for a flavor of UNIX that we don't currently support, see the SarCheck for other operating systems page. We use visits to these pages as one way to judge the demand for other flavors of SarCheck. If there's a specific operating system that you think we should be porting to, please let us know.
More languages? We have the ability to produce SarCheck reports in other languages if anyone is interested. The translations would be more of a Rosetta Stone than a full translation of the entire product. When SarCheck was first written in 1994, the ability to support other languages was an important consideration in how we designed it and we are ready to do a translation when you are.
Other processors? Several new processors are available and it is our intention to keep up with technology. SarCheck runs successfully on Itanium systems as well as systems using the latest SPARC and POWER chips. If you have specific questions, please ask your sales rep.
Other tools? In addition to SarCheck, we're working on several other interesting tools. One of them, ZoneHound, is designed to be an inexpensive way to monitoring the resource utilization of Solaris Zones. ZoneHound is its own tool and has its own website, but it is designed to work with SarCheck and SarCheck can use the output from ZoneHound to produce better reports.
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