Cybermation ESP System Agents Provide Extensive System Control and Monitoring Features; Release 5 Addresses Key User Enhancement Requests and Features All-New Java Architecture.

Business/Technology Editors

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2002

Cybermation Inc., a leading developer of enterprise automation solutions, announced the immediate availability of ESP System Agent Release 5. This latest version features a new Java-based architecture and provides more control and monitoring features for enterprise job scheduling and software change management.

ESP System Agents are lean, non-invasive, and powerful software applications that act as conduits, extending Cybermation's full suite of job scheduling and software change management solutions across a variety of enterprise operating systems and hardware platforms. Featuring sophisticated low network, disk, and CPU utilization techniques, ESP System Agents offer nearly unlimited scalability and throughput to control large networks of servers with virtually no performance impact on agent machines.

"Cybermation is extremely responsive to its user community," commented Ray Nissan, Cybermation chairman and chief technology architect. "At the same time, we continue to innovate and develop the most advanced automation solutions in the industry. Optimizing system performance to extract maximum value from their IT infrastructure is a key concern for our customers and most other organizations today. ESP System Agents provide the ability to monitor and control hundreds or thousands of individual servers across the enterprise without introducing overhead or reducing performance, thereby maximizing ROI and delivering a significant return on value."

Key Features and Benefits

-- All-new ESP System Agent core engine based on the latest leading-edge Java technology

-- Intuitive graphical installation allows users to deploy ESP System Agents throughout the enterprise faster and easier

-- Intelligent self-monitoring notifies any SNMP-capable network monitoring application about status changes. Network management operators are immediately notified when an ESP System Agent starts up, shuts down, or fails

-- On-demand spool file retrieval gives users the ability to view job queues of any ESP System Agent machine remotely from any ESP manager, eliminating the need for users to manually login and view job queues on individual servers

-- Enhanced file monitoring actively monitors systems for existence, deletes, and updates of files recursively through directories, or through wildcard file name criteria allowing users to scan and monitor for particular files with a single command

-- Multiple concurrent manager support enables more than one ESP manager to control and monitor a single agent simultaneously and independently

-- Environment emulation invokes user profiles before running jobs, preserving access/security conditions for job execution automatically.

ESP Agents currently support all of the most commonly-used operating environments, including:

-- Microsoft Windows NT/2000

-- Sun Solaris

-- HP-UX

-- IBM AIX

-- Compaq Tru64

-- IBM DYNIX/ptx

-- IBM OS/390 Unix System Services

-- IBM OS/400

-- NCR SVR4

-- Linux (Intel)

-- Linux (S/390)

-- SGI IRIX

-- MPE/ix, MPE/XL

-- Compaq OpenVMS

-- Compaq NSK

-- IBM OS/2

-- Pyramid DC/OS

Availability

ESP System Agent Release 5 for Windows and various Unix platforms is now available for use with ESP Workload Manager. For more information, contact Cybermation at [phone] or www.cybermation.com.

About Cybermation

Cybermation Inc. is recognized by its many Global 2000 customers as a leading developer of automation solutions for job scheduling, workload management and software change management for heterogeneous computing environments. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. Cybermation's customers include Allstate Insurance, CN Rail, Delta Air Lines, Gap Inc., Honda, McDonalds, Nike, The Bay, UPS, and Verizon in North America and T-Mobile UK, Sony, VHV and Janssen Pharmaceutica in Europe.

Cybermation's products include ESP Workload Manager(R) and ESP Espresso(R), enterprise-wide job scheduling and workload management for OS/390(R), UNIX(R), Windows NT(R) and OS/400(R) operating systems and for SAP R/3, Oracle and PeopleSoft ERP environments; ESP Workstation, a graphical user interface for enterprise scheduling from a single point of control; ESP Encore(R) for automated rerun, restart and recovery; and ESP Alchemist, enterprise software change management for software development and data-center production environments.