Monitor by Anvil Designs

[Michael O'Brien]

dougf at mdavcr.UUCP (Douglas Floer) writes:

>In the Dec 11 issue of UNIX Today, Page 8, Anvil Designs of Santa Clara
>advertises a product called "Monitor" that sounds suspiciously like the
>monitor posting to this newsgroup of about 6 months ago.  Anyone have any
>background on it?
>Doug Floer, MDA, Richmond, BC, Canada             ..!uunet!van-bc!mdavcr!dougf

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In August 1989,  Anvil Designs Pty. Ltd. released Monitor a Unix performance
and tuning software package.  This package is not to be confused with a 
piece of "netware" by the same name that was released onto the net about the
same time.  That monitor package was like a visual ps command and its focus
was to visually give per-process feedback.

MONITOR by Anvil Designs Pty. Ltd. is quite different in approach.  MONITOR
gives complete performance data about the whole system.  All data is 
presented graphically with bar graphs and charts.  MONITOR goes far beyond
the Unix sar or ps command.  Major subsystems within unix are examined.  
Disk fragmentation, disk activity, and per filesystem accesses can be 
compared.

Cpu utilization for processes and within the Operating system can be 
isolated.  The percentage of cpu time  spent servicing floating point
emulation, performing interrupts, swapping, in process control and in 
many other kernel subsystems is displayed.  Indeed, these subsystems
can be altered by the end user to profile inside Unix as required.  This
allows determining faulty hardware which consumes cpu cycles (such as a
faulty serial card).

Memory usage for each process is displayed, and the working set of memory
resident in memory and being heavily accessed is also available.  This 
allows exact computation of how much memory is used by an application, and
how many more users can be added to the system.

MONITOR can operate in interactive mode or in logging mode where all data is
stored in a log file.  This log file can be replayed later to view the
performance data.  The replay speed can be controlled to give a fast forward
effect.

MONITOR uses a device driver to gather the statistics necessary. 

MONITOR costs $350 US and comes complete with a 200 page manual.  This manual
comprehensively deals with all unix tuning and performance issues and is
also a collection of much of the unix tuning folklore.

MONITOR and is available for SCO Unix or Xenix and soon for Interactive 386/IX
and AT&T Unix.  Contact

Anvil Designs Inc.
983 University Ave Building B, Suite 104
Los Gatos, CA 95030 US
Tel (408) 395-5775
Fax (408) 395-6396

or 

Anvil Designs Pty. Ltd.
56 Sylvan Rd, Toowong.
Australia 4066
Tel (617) 870-4999
Fax (617) 371-8881
e-mail ...!uunet!munnari!anvil.oz!mob


Michael O'Brien
Director Development
Anvil Designs Pty. Ltd.