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CA Chorus Infrastructure Management for Networks and Systems

The following improvements have been made to this discipline since the Version 3.0 release:

• Enhanced the Alert and Health State integration
  • The Alerts Module now includes the IMS and WebSphere MQ subsystems.
  • The Policy Status Light Module now includes the IMS and WebSphere MQ subsystems.
  • The Investigator Module now includes alerts, thresholds, and states for the IMS and WebSphere MQ subsystems.
• Enhanced the Investigator integration

  The IMS subsystem:

  • You can display IMS workload delays.
  • You can display IMS transaction delays.
  • You can display active IMS-dependent regions.

  The WebSphere MQ subsystem:

  • You can display MQ queue performance-related metrics.
  • You can display MQ queue users.
  • You can display MQ page set performance.
  • You can display MQ channel instance status and performance.
• Improved installation and security requirements
  • Simplified the APPLID and Passticket configuration
  • Consolidated the security definitions

The Version 3.0 release introduces the CA Chorus Infrastructure Management for Networks and Systems discipline, an interactive, diagnostic, and problem resolution tool that lets you simplify your management of network and system performance. By focusing on a discipline-based delivery model, this product transforms the way a performance analyst works. CA Chorus Infrastructure Management for Networks and Systems drives the overall health of your enterprise and targets the overall optimum performance of underlying resources.

The CA products CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP, CA SYSVIEW Performance Management, and CA Insight contribute to this discipline to offer the following usability features:

• Time Series data graphing
• User-configurable threshold settings for monitoring and investigating alerts
• Real-time network and systems performance reporting
• Real-time access to state and event data
• Object-based navigation for near real-time performance monitoring
• Topological display of the selected resources and associations
• In-context domain documentation
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