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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1adf0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="03a203c0.jpg" border=0 width="32" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Arial" ><B>Saiga Systems Software</B></FONT><B>      |     </B><A HREF="default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Saiga Systems Software"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ferret"><U>Ferret</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hitman"><U>Hitman</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RA"><U>RA</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Swap"><U>Swap</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trace"><U>Trace</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VDM"><U>VDM</U></A>   |   <B>Watch</B>   |   <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cohort"><U>Cohort</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Licensing and pricing information"><U>Licensing and pricing information</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1acf2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="041b4bc0.gif" border=0 width="180" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Watch is part of the Cohort V3 suite of OpenVMS system management tools.</div> <div> <A HREF="id9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Watch V6"><U>Download V6</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Licensing and pricing information"><U>License Information</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Products"><U>Products</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Copyright:</div> <div> Saiga Systems Software Inc.</div> <div> Suite 913,</div> <div> 105 - 150 Crowfoot Cres NW</div> <div> Calgary, AB</div> <div> Canada</div> <div> T3G 3T2</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Last Update to this page:</div> <div> March 8, 2001</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1aff0f03.jpg"> <div> <I>Watch</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="044c2c40.gif" border=0 width="194" height="196" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> WATCH is an OpenVMS system monitor. It works very much like the Monitor utility provided by Digital Equipment, but its main advantage is it packs all the important information into one useful screen.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Main Screen</B></div> <bR> <div> On the main screen you can monitor:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">CPU usage (Total and system)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Total memory usage</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">System wide page faults</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">IO (Direct, Buffer, Split)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Disk performance (I/O Rate, Que Length Response, % Free, Files open)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Cache</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Top resource user for CPU, BIO, DIO, Page Faults and Working Sets.</div> <div> For any of the above you can pinpoint the top six processes and display all important details</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Number of each process types on your system(Interactive, Batch, etc)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Number of each process states on your system (COM,LEF,HIB, etc)</div> <bR> <div> <B>Other Detail Screens </B></div> <bR> <div> If you need more detail for processes or disks, detail screens display these items. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Other Features </B></div> <bR> <div> WATCH also has these following features:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Advice screen that reports various possible performance problems</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A recorder that allows you to record information for generating reports or later playback</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">On the main screen, Watch allows you to compare current statistics with the previous value, the maximum value, the difference between last and current value, and the average value.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Some New Features of Watch Version 5 and Watch Version 6</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The main WATCH screen now shows the year as well as month and day.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">WATCH can now record data for more than the current day. When using WATCH to record data for subsequent use you may now specify date and time with the /START_TIME and /END_TIME qualifiers. Previously they accepted only time and no date information. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new summary report has been added to watch. WATCH/REPORT=SUMMARY will read the contents of a watch record file and generate a two page report. Use /START_TIME and /END_TIME to summarize only a portion of the recorded information. A new /OUTPUT qualifier has been added to direct this report into a file instead of to the screen.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">WATCH can now run on systems with up to 2,000 processes; the previous limit was 1,000.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">WATCH now has an INSTALL_CDU.COM procedure. This procedure was added for consistency with all our other products.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The WATCH user screen can now be limited to displaying on active processes by defining the logical WATCH$ACTIVE to be "YES" before starting WATCH. Due to rounding some processes may still appear to be inactive; they have actually used less than of 1 percent of the resources.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Now you can fast forward through a watch record file using the new /condense qualifier during playback to specify that only every nth screen be displayed. All recorded information is still included in calculations for accuracy.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The /condense qualifier can also be used when printing recorded information to decrease the number of screens that are actually included in the print output.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new wide screen display is available for watch. Sites that are experiencing overflows to the screen or print files can use the /wide qualifier to increase the size of the screen or report including increasing the number of positions available for showing most numeric values.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>