Boole & Babbage Announces New COMMAND/POST Power Module for Oracle.Customers Receive "Out of the Box" Real-Time Monitoring, Event Automation, and Trend Analysis for Oracle Databases Boole & Babbage(R) (Nasdaq:BOOL) today announced the availability of the new COMMAND/POST(R) Power Module for Oracle, an agent that provides powerful systems management capabilities out-of-the-box for Oracle 7 and Oracle 8 database and applications environments. The Power Module for Oracle takes away the administrative burden from IT by providing real-time event monitoring In computer science, event monitoring is the process of collecting, analyzing, and signalling event occurrences to subscribers such as operating system processes, active database rules as well as human operators. , automation for fast recovery of Oracle-related faults, and tools for trend analysis of database performance. The Power Module for Oracle has already been proven by several major corporations worldwide to immediately increase the availability of Oracle databases and applications, and lower the cost of management. This new addition to the COMMAND/POST enterprise service level management solution supports the Boole & Babbage Desired State Management initiative by providing proactive policy-driven management. The Power Module for Oracle can be customized to enforce complex business policies, such as a policy based A decision made by any software application that is based on the policy (rules and regulations) of the organization. See policy and COPS. upon the business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a an application must remain active and available, wherein alerts and recovery options can be tailored to the company's precise customer service level requirements. "The Power Module for Oracle was designed for quick and easy 'drop-in' integration with COMMAND/POST, which has a unique 3-tiered architecture that allows alerts to be passed up to a mid- or enterprise-level management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. , using the COMMAND/POST Explorer interface," said Gary Read, senior director of marketing for Boole & Babbage. "The Power Modules are packaged solutions that provide value to our customers from the moment they are installed, and when combined with the sophisticated event management capabilities of COMMAND/POST, enable enterprise-wide availability and service level management." "The Boole & Babbage COMMAND/POST Power Module for Oracle delivers value-add not only by simplifying administration, but also by providing greater management-tool flexibility and breadth. Since applications are by definition business-critical, the ability of management to improve application availability goes directly to the bottom line," said Jeanine Fournier, senior analyst Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. . The Power Module for Oracle extends the capabilities of COMMAND/POST by combining Oracle database management with enterprise management of the surrounding systems and networking infrastructure that might affect the application's service and availability. Oracle database servers are business-critical resources, as they contain a corporation's financial systems, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems, order processing, fulfillment systems and other key information. Therefore, performance and availability is a serious concern for IT operations and the applications or systems managers with responsibility for the Oracle servers. Out-of-the-box, the Oracle-specific monitoring capabilities of the Power Module for Oracle include: -- Table Space Monitoring -- System Global Area (SGA SGA abbr. small for gestational age Small-for-gestational-age (SGA) A term used to describe newborns who are below the 10th percentile in height or weight for their estimated gestational age. ) Monitoring -- Oracle Sessions Monitoring -- Database Objects Status Monitoring -- Individual Tables Statistics -- Multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading Server Statistics The Power Module for Oracle supports Oracle databases running on either 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. or UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . Additional Boole & Babbage Power Modules include UNIX (multiple versions), Windows NT, OS/2, NetWare, AS/400, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) MQSeries, Microsoft MSMQ See Microsoft Message Queue Server. and SAP R/3. Availability and Pricing The Power Module for Oracle is available now, and pricing starts at $750. Attractive quantity discounts are available. About COMMAND/POST The COMMAND/POST family of solutions provides end-to-end service level management for ensuring availability of networked applications. Through the business process views of the COMMAND/POST enterprise management console, IT staff can greatly reduce complexity while proactively monitoring the health of the entire IT infrastructure. Pre-configured COMMAND/POST Power Modules enhance the enterprise conser in availability and service level management for distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. . Its Enterprise Automation product lines provide a management solution for the entire IT enterpri Web technologies. The Boole & Babbage set of solutions is currently used by large manufacturing companies, domestic and international government agencies, the majority of the world's largest financial institutions, airlines, IT outsourcers and utilities to improve service levels and reduce IT management costs. Founded in 1967, Boole & Babbage is the oldest publicly traded independent software vendor in the systems management industry and today is approximately a $225 million company with 930 employees in 43 offices in 26 countries. Corporate headquarters are located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information, visit us on the Web at www.boole.com, or call 800/544-2152. Boole & Babbage, Inc. is a Tivoli (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) premiere partner, a Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) premier partner, an IBM (NYSE:IBM) BESTeam Member, and a Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) Solutions Developer. Boole & Babbage and COMMAND/POST are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc. 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