The client monitors the status of software and hardware from a mobile phone running , allowing users to restart and terminate applications and to be alerted to low disk space or availability of peripherals.

HipCheck currently runs as a hosted solution for Windows and SCO's Unix servers, while the company develops compatibilities with Solaris, Linux and other Unix versions.

SCO Group Australia managing director Kieran O'Shaughnessy said the hosted solution has already been taken up by a wholesale electrical company which deployed HipCheck for its 200 SCO Unix servers.

"HipCheck works great for this sort of deployment but we will see a key market in large single office buildings which will use it to monitor a bunch of servers," O'Shaughnessy said.

"Once users register their servers, the phones they use to manage them run at SCO. Alerts are then sent to selected phones which also run server administrative tasks."