Announcement: Withdrawal Of Pegasus Resource Monitor Version 2.0

C.O.L. Systems Inc. announces today the withdrawal of the Pegasus Resource
Monitor Version 2.0 for OS/2.

February 28, 1995 -- Sales of the product will continue until April 1st,
1995 and then replaced with the Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitoring System
Version 3.0. Refer to the Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitoring System
announcement for more details.

All customers who have purchased the Pegasus Resource Monitor Version 2.0
after January 1st, 1995 will be eligible for a free electronic upgrade to
Osrm2 Lite Version 3.0 or an upgrade package for $15.00 US to cover
documentation, shipping, and handling.

Customers who have purchased the Pegasus Resource Monitor Version 2.0 after
October 1st, 1994 will be eligible for a upgrade to Osrm2 Lite Version 3.0
for $35.00 US.

Upgrade will be made available at place of purchase.
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Announcement: New Performance Monitoring Technology Released.

C.O.L. Systems Inc. announces the April 1st, 1995 availability of a new
OS/2 performance monitoring system: Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitoring
System Version 3.0 including the Multi-User Performance Interface (MUPI)
technology. Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitoring System Version 3.0, which is
certified OS/2 and OS/2 LAN Ready, will list at $89.00 US and be made
available through popular OS/2 resellers and Pete Norloffs OS/2 BBS.
Upgrade incentives from the C.O.L. Systems Inc. Pegasus Resource Monitor
will be made available through place of purchase.

"Osrm2 now has an expanded data collection that includes OS/2 2.x, OS/2
Warp, OS/2 SMP, IBM Lan Server and HPFS386 from one software package."
says Frank V. Castellucci, president of C.O.L. Systems Inc., "With its
lower price, the ability to support any number of data collection programs
with our Multi-User Performance Interface (MUPI), enhanced OS/2 REXX
extension for reporting, and friendly, informative presentation, Osrm2
provides the most robust and cost effective OS/2 performance monitoring
software in the industry."

Each component of the Osrm2 Lite system work through the newly developed
Multi-User Performance Interface (MUPI) technology which communicates
directly with the OS/2 kernel to get accurate measurements of resource
usage. "Osrm2 Lite is the only system which supports multiple concurrent
monitoring capability from different programs and is in direct response to
user requests." Castellucci continues, "Previous systems would only allow
one program to run at a time, a limitation still found in other kernel
level OS/2 monitors."

The Osrm2 Lite Version 3.0 product comes bundled with the Osrm2 Lite
Monitor for general system and application resource usage displays, data
logging, and exception alerts, three additional trace and collect
utilities for detailed cache, thread, file, memory and paging analysis,
and a OS/2 REXX extension to create post processing reports from collected
data files.

Osrm2 Lite is a single machine version of C.O.L. Systems Inc. performance
management software line, which includes the Osrm2 Performance and
Capacity Management System for local area networks, and was originally
developed in 1989 and since enhanced.

Data Sheet Contents
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General
Product Descriptions
Symmetrical Multiprocessor Support
Multi-User Process Interface (MUPI) Technology
Competitive Analysis
Reseller List

General

The Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor with Multi-User Performance Interface
(MUPI) is a kernel level, real time, performance monitoring and management
tool for system and application resource usage under OS/2 2.x, OS/2 SMP,
and OS/2 Warp. Including a configurable sample rate, performance threshold
setting and alarms, working set, thread detail display, kill process
options, as well as real time graphical indicators and long term data
logging for post processing analysis, the Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor
provides the most comprehensive monitoring tool for OS/2 2.x systems.

Unlike other monitors, the Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor, Osrm2 AppMon,
Osrm2 FileMon, and Osrm2 CacheMon utilities work with information
retrieved directly from the OS/2 kernel. This is a superior, less
intrusive, and less resource consumptive method of collection compared to
other performance monitoring products.

The product was designed to provide the hobbyist, small business owner,
developer, corporate user, and network OS/2 analyst with informative
performance and resource usage displays and reporting capability. Osrm2
Lite will be available April 2nd, 1995 through popular OS/2 resellers and
distributors.

C.O.L. Systems Inc. has been in the business of providing practical OS/2
systems performance monitoring and management software since 1989.

Osrm2, Pegasus Resource Monitor, and Osrm2 Tools are copyright by C.O.L.
Systems Inc.

OS/2, IBM Lan Server, IBM DB2/2, IBM SPM/2 are copyright by International
Business Machines.

Product Description
===================

Configuration

The Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor provides password protection,
configuration control over all displays and process refresh timing, graph
colors, save and restore window position and sizes, exception thresholds,
and data logging file control.

Displays

The Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor provides a number of displays to monitor
all facets of system and application activity. Following is a brief
description of each:

System View    CPU, IRQ, dispatch counts, complete paging subsystem
               information, memory information, swap size and growth
               percentage, maximum active thread count, and cache
               activity. The view is switchable from summary to
               detail, including support for OS/2 SMP multiple
               processor activity.

IO View        All logical partition (including floppy and CD-ROM
               drives) Read/Write Count/Response/Bytes as well as
               hard-disk storage available and used indicators.
               Communication ports 1-4 and printer ports 1-2 are also
               monitored.

App View       For each process, a summary of CPU, Dispatch, Page
               Faults, Fault Wait time, File Wait time and Read/Write
               activity.

LanServer      For Server, Requestor, and HPFS386 activity.

Threads        From a selected process in Application View, display
               each thread of the application. Displayed are: CPU
               Utilization, Dispatch Counts, Page Faults, Page Fault
               resolution time, and File wait time.

Graph          Displays CPU Busy, Memory Used, and Swap Storage used
               percentage in line chart running for five (5)
               minutes of five (5) second refresh records.  When
               data line reaches end of X-axis, 20 percent of the
               display is scrolled back.  When graph is icon, data
               is still visible and the icon text displays the most
               recent records data values.

Processes

The Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor provides a number of processes that
operate in the background during the monitoring session:

Logging        During the Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor session,
               data records can be stored to binary files.  C.O.L.
               Systems Inc.  has provided a REXX extension DLL for
               allowing REXX procedures to read and process the
               data for reports and analysis or populating database
               tables such as with IBM DB2/2 for OS/2.

Threshold      Configurable performance thresholds are tested against
               the data samples during the Osrm2 Lite Performance
               Monitor session.  A dialog will pop-up when any
               threshold has been met or exceeded to alert the user.

Utilities      Each of the Osrm2 Tools (AppMon, FileMon, CacheMon) can
               be executed directly from the Osrm2 Lite menu. The
               Osrm2 Tools are described later in this document.

Reporting

C.O.L.  Systems Inc. has developed a OS/2 REXX extension DLL which is
loaded by a REXX procedures (CMD file) to read the log file output from
the Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor, Osrm2 AppMon, Osrm2 FileMon, and Osrm2
CacheMon utilities.

Osrm2 AppMon Utility

Allows the performance analyst to monitor any application thread and file
measurements at intervals from 1 second to 45 minutes. By creating a
output log, the user can utilize the Osrm2 Lite Rexx extension interface
to create reports of all measurements. AppMon can be started directly from
the Osrm2 menu or from the Application Activity screen for a specific
process.

Osrm2 FileMon Utility

Allows the performance analyst to monitor any and all physical disk and
logical file measurements at intervals from 1 second to 45 minutes. By
creating a output log, the user can utilize the Osrm2 Lite Rexx extension
interface to create reports of all measurements.

Osrm2 CacheMon Utility

Allows the performance analyst to monitor FAT and HPFS Cache as well as
Memory and Paging subsystems at intervals from 1 second to 45 minutes. By
creating a output log, the user can utilize the Osrm2 Lite Rexx extension
interface to create reports of all measurements.

Symmetrical Multiprocessor Support

Osrm2 Lite provides the same detail information on OS/2 SMP as it does on
OS/2 2.11 or OS/2 Warp, and it does so with the same software. This means
that if the user upgrades from a single processor implementation to SMP,
Osrm2 Lite will be there to provide the same level of quality performance
monitoring.

When SMP is detected Osrm2 Lite will adjust the record information and
allow the user to display either a summary of the sampled data or will
break out the display for each processor. In addition, Osrm2 Lite will
collect detail information for post process support via the REXX
extension.

Osrm2 Lite is itself scaleable to a SMP implementation.

Multi-User Process Interface (MUPI) Technology

C.O.L. Systems Inc. has developed a new technology which allows the
concurrent data collection by multiple processes from the OS/2 kernel.

Unlike other kernel level monitors, which only support access of only one
process, MUPI can allow the user to run the Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor
while running any or all of the Osrm2 Tools (AppMon, FileMon, CacheMon).

Each process has control over it's data collection interval and logging
through the MUPI technology.

This technology will form a base from C.O.L. Systems Inc. can introduce new
enhancements such as concurrent network access, text based monitors,
central data collection, third party products, etc.

OS/2 software vendor and VAR inquiries are welcome.

Competitive Analysis

Osrm2   - COL Systems Osrm2 Lite Performance Monitor Version 3.0
Pegasus - COL Systems Pegasus Resource Monitor Version 2.0
SPM/2   - IBM System Performance Monitor Version 2.0

Feature                 SPM/2           Pegasus         Osrm2
--------------------    -----           -------         -----
MUPI                    no              no              YES
MUPI API                no              no              YES
SMP Support             no              no              YES
Swap Statistics         no              no              YES
Max Thread              no              no              YES
Detail DOS or
   Windows Capture      no              no              YES
LanServer Display       no              no              YES
HPFS386 Display         no              no              YES
REXX Interface          no              yes             YES
Disk Storage
   Display              no              yes             YES
System Activity
   Display              no              yes             YES
Application Activity
   Display              no              yes             YES
I/O Activity
   Display              no              yes             YES
Kernel Interface        yes             yes             YES
List Price              $495.00         $149.00         $89.00
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Reseller List

Pete Norloffs OS/2 BBS.
BBS Phone               (703) 385-4325 (N-8-1)

Indelible Blue
Phone                   (800) 776-8284

OS/2 Express
Phone                   (800) 672-5945

C.O.L. Systems Inc.
10 Watergate Drive
Amawalk, NY. 10501
(914) 245-0442,  (914) 245-0452 (FAX)

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