Heroix Announces SQL Server 2000 Compliance; RoboMon Boosts Availability, Performance for SQL Server 7, SQL Server 2000

Business Wire, Oct 24, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

PASS 2000

booth #101

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2000

Heroix Corporation, a leader in eBusiness infrastructure management software, today announced Microsoft SQL Server 2000 compliance for Heroix RoboMon software which the company is exhibiting (along with award-winning Heroix RoboER) at PASS 2000, San Francisco, California, booth #101. Heroix software helps organizations guarantee the availability and performance of their applications, systems, and networks running on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows NT, Unix, and Linux.

SQL Server 2000 Compliance

Heroix RoboMon is now fully compliant with SQL Server 2000. New in RoboMon is a comprehensive agent for monitoring and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2000, which complements its existing support for Microsoft SQL Server 7. Central to SQL Server 2000 is the ability to support multiple SQL Server instances ("multiple servers"), which can include a combination of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7. Heroix RoboMon will automatically detect all such server instances, and provide seamless monitoring of any systems running SQL Server 2000 and/or SQL Server 7.

With its significant improvements in clustering and scalability, SQL Server 2000 supports ever larger and more distributed mission-critical environments. To support these environments, Heroix RoboMon uses a scalable and flexible event architecture that forwards events selectively to any destination in any size environment. RoboMon's fault-tolerant event forwarding provides a unified view of distributed SQL Server systems, while generating minimal network overhead.

"Heroix is pleased to deliver software that facilitates the migration to SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000. By seamlessly and intelligently supporting both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7, our software helps organizations reduce their migration costs and provide better availability and performance both during and after deployment," said Howard Reisman, Heroix president and CEO. "This fully SQL-Server-2000-compliant release underscores Heroix' commitment to deliver software products and services that help organizations guarantee the availability and performance of their multi-platform eBusiness infrastructure and applications."

About RoboMon's SQL Server Monitoring Capabilities

Heroix RoboMon's SQL Server Intelligent Solution Set provides easily configurable proactive monitoring and problem solving for any size SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 7 environment. RoboMon automatically monitors all aspects of SQL Server availability and performance, including the following:

- Basic operations, such whether crucial services are running;

- Performance criteria, such as CPU, I/O and memory, and replication latency;

- Overall database health, such as free disk space, database size, and log file size; and

- Criteria specific to each version of SQL Server, such as unsafe auto-parameterization attempts.

Heroix RoboMon diagnoses and corrects problems on-the-spot, and escalates them to the attention of DBAs and other IT staff at a central monitoring location. Performance and event data are archived to help evaluate hardware and software needs, and to plan realistically for growth.

About Heroix

Heroix delivers award winning software products that help organizations guarantee the availability and performance of their multi-platform eBusiness infrastructure and applications. Companies in over 40 countries rely on our integrated management suite to monitor and manage their Microsoft(R) Windows 2000, Windows NT, Unix and Linux systems. Heroix's products detect problems, report and graph performance data, and centrally monitor such wide-ranging technologies as SQL Server, Exchange, IIS, Citrix, Oracle, Cisco, Insight Manager and more, as well as Service Level Agreements. Founded in 1975, Heroix is an authorized MCSP with US headquarters in Newton, Mass., and EMEA headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, U.K. Heroix: 800-229-6500; www.heroix.com.