BGS Systems, Inc.


BEST/1 Performance Assurance for UNIX


128 Technology Center
Waltham, Massachusetts 02254 USA

Tel: 617-891-0000
Fax: 617-890-0000
Internet: best1@bgs.com


BEST/1 Performance Assurance for UNIX is the first complete and integrated facility for centrally managing the performance and capacity of multi-vendor distributed UNIX environments. It operates on a wide variety of UNIX variants including Sun, IBM, HP and others, and includes integrated support for RDBMS such as Oracle and Sybase. The product suite includes:

BEST/1 Configurable Agent is the single point of contact on each managed node for all performance and capacity functions. It provides continuous, low-overhead performance data collection that is consistent across UNIX variants and integrates RDBMS metrics. Statistics cover CPU, I/O priorities, memory, file systems, disks, logical and physical volumes, network, and processes. The information specific to RDBMS such as Oracle or Sybase includes locking, cache, space and other statistics plus resource usage by application and user.

BEST/1-Monitor with real-time intelligent alert and display subagents allows system managers to detect, analyze and resolve critical problems as they occur. Alert and display policies are mapped to domains or individual managed nodes. Alarm conditions are forwarded to the BEST/1-Monitor console(s) or, using the SNMP trap Protocol Data Unit, to frameworks such as Solstice SunNet Manager , NetView/6000 and OpenView. Action may be taken locally or remotely.

BEST/1-Visualizer provides an integrated database and extensive graphical facilities for communicating performance and capacity information from UNIX and other enterprise platforms. The analyst can drill down from an overall "status-at-a-glance" level to the details of performance on individual systems using an exception-oriented approach and purpose-built graphics. Usage can be tracked across multiple nodes.

BEST/1-Predict uses proven analytical modeling technology to determine the impact of workload and configuration and changes on performance. Changes to CPU, memory, I/O, priorities, transaction rates and mixes, and other attributes can be evaluated, even across multiple nodes. The "what-if" analyses support sizing of applications, test-driving of tuning alternatives, and planning capacity requirements.


Solaris version: 2.4

Solstice application/version: Solstice SNM 2.2.2

Types of integration: Console Menu Interface, SNMP Trap Protocol