SAS Institute Inc has added a timestamp synchronisation component to its Unix SAS/CPE network performance and analysis tool, which streamlines access to data stored in NetView for AIX and OpenView. It does this by employing a fuzzing algorithm that enables automatic data preparation for analysis by its SAS executive information system automatically. NetView and OpenView log data by putting every metric into a separate file with its own timestamp, says SAS, and unless the timestamps are synchronised, data has to be summarised manually or post-processed to get hourly or daily averages. It says the new component analyses and reports disparate data sources regardless of individual timestamp behaviour. SAS/CPE licences cost $3,000.
