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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For Marketing: brianne@aggroup.com
For Sales: sales@aggroup.com

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WatchPoint™ 2.0 Released!

AG Group Releases v.2.0 of WatchPoint -- and Announces EtherPeek/WatchPoint Special Enter!(TM) Bundle Offer

WALNUT CREEK, California - November 1, 1999

AG Group, Inc. today released WatchPoint 2.0 -- an upgrade to its breakthrough server monitoring and analysis application -- offering corporate Internet data centers, ISPs and virtually any company with a web server or web presence an affordable means of getting real-time information about their Internet site usage and performance from one or multiple entry points. WatchPoint's easy install, ease-of-use and non-invasive infrastructure, among its many other useful features, make the product stand above its competitors. The 2.0 release adds many enhancements to an already robust product profile, including IP PathTracking, enhanced reporting, Users Security Profiles, and much more!

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WatchPoint 2.0 Feature Enhancements

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• New! IP Path Tracking

  WatchPoint's unique PathTracking(TM) features watch your visitors' journey through your site: where they are referred from, which pages interest them, how far they get, where they get stuck and where and when they leave. This information lets you build pages to engage your web site visitors, and point them where you want them to go.

• New! Users Security Profiles

  Users Security Profiles allows a system administrator to set up "accounts" in WatchPoint and specify which HTTP and FTP servers can be seen in each one of those accounts. Additionally, if there are multiple users on the same web server, a substring filter can be specified to limit what each user can see.

• New! Unique IP Address Lists for Each HTTP/FTP Server Monitored

  WatchPoint 2.0 adds an IP address list report which displays all the unique IP addresses seen for each server being monitored in a specified time period.

• Top Level Domain Breakdown Report with Time Series

  Get real-time, sorted reports by .com, .net, .jp, .org, etc. domain.

• WP Export

  If you already have a log file analyzer, external database, or other custom program that you would like to pump your web statistics into, WP Export allows exporting of the WatchPoint database to Common Log File Format. WP Export can also be used alongside the WatchPoint Monitor to capture and export ALL HTTP traffic on your network for post-capture analysis.

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WatchPoint Technology - Seeing is Believing!

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WatchPoint is an affordable, scalable, two-part application that excels at analyzing how web site content is being used and how effectively information is being delivered from one or multiple internet servers. WatchPoint's in-depth HTTP and FTP analysis and reporting capabilities are available in real-time - as your Internet site is being accessed - freeing you from manual, time-consuming log file analysis.

WatchPoint uses a patented, non-invasive network monitoring approach to measure Internet activity through the capture and re-assembling of all packets passing back and forth between all TCP connections on the network. From this data, key information is extracted, analyzed and presented in an intuitive, graphical report form.

Anyone needing to gather and analyze statistics from their web servers should download a full-functioning, time-limited WatchPoint v.2.0 demo from http://www.aggroup.com/demos and start seeing the rich reporting detail instantly available with the software.

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WatchPoint(SBE) and WatchPoint(EE)

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WatchPoint is available in two configurations, the Small Business Edition (SBE) and the Enterprise Edition (EE). WatchPoint(SBE) is an affordable single-machine configuration that allows complete monitoring analysis of one HTTP and one FTP server. WatchPoint(EE) allows complete monitoring analysis for multiple HTTP and FTP servers, allows servers to be compared against each other, and features a fully distributed architecture. Server Monitors accept report requests from any number of Consoles.

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ENTER!(TM) e-biz Performance Monitoring Bundle!

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With the anticipated rush of on-line spending this holiday season, the time is NOW to start gathering information on the customers or potential customers visiting your site. You also need to be assured that the site will be up and running when they come.

Get vital customer stats and make certain network performance issues don't put a crimp in your holiday plans. Enter!, our e-biz Performance Monitoring Pack, includes all the tools you need to keep your network humming along so that you can find out who your customers are, where they're coming from, where they go while on your site and when they leave. And besides getting essential network and web server management tools, you'll save a bundle if you buy the bundle NOW!

Enter! includes:
EtherPeek for Windows (with upgrade to v4) + 15-months Extended Maintenance WatchPoint v2.0 Enterprise Edition + 15-months Extended Maintenance AGNetTools IP test utility software

The Enter! bundle is $3,995.00, representing over $1,000.00 in savings from SRP on the individually licensed tools. The bundle is available through November 30, 1999. For more information, please visit http://www.aggroup.com.

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Pricing, Availability and System Requirements

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WatchPoint 2.0 is available NOW.

WatchPoint(SBE) SRP: US $1,000.00
WatchPoint(EE) SRP: US $3000.00

Suggested Minimum System Requirements for WatchPoint Monitor:
Pentium 166 or higher
Windows NT 4.0 or Win 2000 with Service Pack 3 or higher
64 MB RAM
NDIS3 or higher Compatible Ethernet Card
Color Monitor

System Requirements for WatchPoint Console:
The WatchPoint Console can run on a Win 95/98, NT4.0, Win 2000 or Macintosh platform

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AG Group, Inc.

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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 network and protocol analyzers, LAN/WAN and Internet traffic monitors, TCP/IP test utilities, and network management and protocol-specific training classes.

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Contact

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Sheri Najafi
Marketing Manager
(925) 937-7900, ext. 19
sheri@aggroup.com
http://www.aggroup.com/