[comp.newprod] X based system performance monitor

wrv@balr.com (Bill Vogel) (04/16/91)

*** BALR Corporation announces SYSMON Version 2.0 ***

SYSMON(tm) is a system performance monitor for SUN based computer system
networks.  Utilizing an Open Look(tm) graphical user interface, SYSMON is
able to display system and network performance data in real time.  In addition,
SYSMON can gather and store performance data daily, which can then be viewed
and printed in 3 graphical formats over several different time periods.
Up to 8 performance parameters can be displayed simultaneously when viewing
historical data.

SYSMON can gather data from many machines on a network, and any machine can
view and print data from any other machine or set of machines.  The system
is entirely flexible, and can be configured in any manner.  Only a small,
efficient process needs to be resident on the machines you wish to monitor,
and data collection and display can be relegated to other machines, or perhaps
even a dedicated workstation.

SYSMON can monitor many types of performance data, including data on:
  * CPU performance, including user time, system time, idle time and
    load averages (1, 5 and 15 minute).
  * Network traffic, at both the physical device level as well as the
    TCP/IP level.  Device level information includes packets sent and
    received as well as collision and error rates.
  * Disk drive activity including number of blocks and I/O requests per
    second.
  * Paging, swapping, fault and trap rates.
  * System calls, forks, vforks, context switches and device interrupts
    per second.
  * Instantaneous size of the disk-wait, page-wait and run queues.
  * NFS activity, both client and server, down to the specific call level
    if desired.
  * Memory and swap space utilization.
  * Filesystem free space statistics.
  * MMU cache flushing rates.
  * Dynamic process activity, which displays in real time instantaneous
    CPU and memory utilization.
  * Block I/O cache hit ratio.
  * Paging daemon activity.
  * Critical resource utilization, including file table entries, shared
    memory segments, semaphores, message queues and streams.
  * TTY I/O activity.
  * Active uucp/cu sessions.
  * Who is logged into the system.
  * A special package that allows you to "zoom" in on a specific set of
    processes (by process name or by user name) and observe cpu time;
    % memory; message activity; process growth; faults, reads, writes,
    signals and context switches per second.

The following requirements must be fulfilled to display data with SYSMON:
  1. You must have a SUN workstation, preferably with color.
  2. You must be running SunOS 4.1 or later.  You can, however, monitor
     SunOS version 4.0 systems with SYSMON, you just can't view the
     data on those machines.
  3. You must have Sun's OpenWindows version 2.0 or later.
     SYSMON will NOT work with a pure MIT X-server.
  4. For output, you must have a postscript printer if you wish to print
     reports.

Free 30 day demo diskettes are available.  Pricing includes source code,
which comes STANDARD when you purchase SYSMON.  Site and corporate licenses
are available.  Most of SYSMON is written in C++.

Because of the open architecture of SYSMON, future development plans include
the ability to collect data from other different computer hardware platforms,
although the display base platform will remain SUN.  In addition, SYSMON will
be able to monitor the database engines of several commercially available
database products.

For further information, please contact:
    BALR Corporation
    600 Enterprise Drive
    Oak Brook, Illinois  60521
    phone: (708)575-8200 fax: (708)575-8205 email: sysmon@balr.com

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SYSMON is a registered trademark of BALR Corporation.
Open Look is a trademark of AT&T.
OpenWindows is a trademark of Sun Microsystems.