AG Group, Inc. Releases WatchPoint-R- Version 2.1; Powerful Real-time Internet Server Monitoring and Analysis.Business Editors & High Tech Writers WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2000 AG Group, Inc., a leading provider of accessible, affordable network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. tools, today announced WatchPoint 2.1, an upgrade to its breakthrough server monitoring and analysis application. WatchPoint offers corporate Internet data centers and Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. (ISPs) the first practical means of getting real-time information about their Internet site usage and performance. Marketing and sales professionals have the complex task of measuring Web visitor database transactions and traffic patterns to maximize site profitability and retain online customers. WatchPoint provides report generation and utilization statistics in real-time, allowing marketing and sales personnel to easily capture and analyze the behavior of online customers on the fly -- freeing users from cumbersome, time consuming log-file analysis. "As a Software Product Manager, I have come to rely on our web traffic more and more for vital customer interchange," says Dovid Coplan of Netopia. "WatchPoint assists me in recognizing where my visitors are coming from and therefore better refine the partnerships and content that I maintain." Through WatchPoint data is extracted, analyzed and presented in an intuitive, graphical report format to deliver information such as the average length of a user's session, web pages or files downloaded, server performance, top entry and exit pages, the most frequently visited pages and more. WatchPoint v.2.1 Feature Enhancements The 2.1 release of WatchPoint adds many new enhancements including Auto Refresh To retrieve, scan or display information at predescribed intervals. The term refers to a variety of concepts, but it implies that an operation is performed automatically over and over again such as retrieving the latest data from a news feed every five minutes. , Suffix Resolver and Preference Specified Column Widths: -- Auto Refresh - Provides viewing statistics in real-time intervals with automatic updates every five seconds. -- Suffix Resolver - Restructured format for top-level domain (networking) top-level domain - The last and most significant component of an Internet fully qualified domain name, the part after the last ".". For example, host wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk is in top-level domain "uk" (for United Kingdom). names allows users to view domain name suffix meanings and personalize them for new domains. -- Preference Specified Column Widths - Gives support for unique preferences in column tables These new access control features add to an already robust feature-set and help users manage information more efficiently, saving time and online revenue. "There has been an emergence of hosted services in our market that provide real-time reports on web site utilization. This trend is in response to the performance, scaling and aggregation challenges associated with traditional server-resident log file web analysis tools," states AG Group's Channel Manager Ed Hazarabedian. "With its unique technology and at a fraction of the cost of hosted services, WatchPoint passively monitors web site, server and network activity in real-time with no modifications to existing web pages, without degrading server performance and without burdening the IT staff." WatchPoint uses a unique, non-invasive network monitoring approach to measure Internet activity, and extracts this key data through the capture and re-assembling of all packets passing back and forth between all TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end. connections on the network. WatchPoint's functionality also benefits the IT staff by providing server and network performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. . WatchPoint Pricing and Availability WatchPoint 2.1: Real Time Server Analysis Small Business Edition (SBE SBE - Microsoft Office Small Business Edition ) - $1,000.00 Enterprise Edition (EE) - $3,000.00 Multi-user site licenses offered AG Group's products are available through major distributors and resellers worldwide. For a complete listing visit http://www.aggroup.com/products/. WatchPoint System Requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule. Monitor (server): -- Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 4.0 service pack 3 or Windows 2000 -- Pentium 400 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. and faster -- 128M of RAM Console (client): -- Windows 95/98/2000, NT4.0 or Mac OS with Mac Runtime Java 2.0 -- Pentium 166 MHz and faster -- 64 MB of RAM About AG Group, Inc. AG Group, Inc. specializes in the development of powerful and affordable software-based tools to troubleshoot, optimize and maintain mixed-platform, multi-protocol network environments. Our goal of bringing superior technology, accessibility, value and flexibility to the ever-expanding realm of network management incorporates both software and service products. Currently, AG Group offerings include award-winning network and protocol analyzers EtherPeek and TokenPeek, LAN/WAN LAN/WAN Local Area Network/Wide Area Network and Internet traffic monitors WatchPoint and Skyline/Satellite, TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. test utilities, as well as network management and protocol-specific training classes. Large enterprise customers that have standardized on AG Group software or have added AG Product/Packet Analysis training to their class roster include Lucent Netcare Professional services, Cisco International and Motorola University. For more information on AG Group solutions and services, please visit AG Group's web site at http://www.aggroup.com/ or contact sales@aggroup.com. All trademarks are the property of their respective holders. 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